Dr. Jocelyn Evans is Reader in Politics and University Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Salford, UK. He received his PhD in Social and Political Science (1998) from the European University Institute, Florence. At the University of Salford, he teaches theories of voting, Extreme Right parties in Europe and an introduction to quantitative methods. His principal focus is on French Politics and the Front National, on which he has published in Revue Française de Science Politique, French Politics, Revue Politique et Parlementaire and Migrations-Société. His latest endeavour, together with Dr Gilles Ivaldi (University of Nice), is to extend VP-function models to predicting third-party candidate votes, namely Le Pen in the 2007 presidential race. His studies on extremism and radicalism have also encompassed Euroscepticism and the Northern Irish political system, in Party Politics, Political Studies and Electoral Studies. He is currently working on a monograph on Northern Ireland, Constitutionalising Conflict, with Professor Jonathan Tonge (University of Liverpool). He is also working with Dr Kai Arzheimer (University of Essex) on four Electoral Behaviour volumes for the Sage Library of Political Science series.

Dr. Leonard Weinberg is Foundation Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada and a senior fellow at the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism in Oklahoma City and at the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa (Israel). Over the course of his career he has been a Fulbright senior research fellow for Italy, a visiting scholar at UCLA, a guest professor at the University of Florence, and the recipient of an H. F. Guggenheim Foundation grant for the study of political violence. He has also served as a consultant to the United Nations’ Office for the Prevention of Terrorism (Agency for Crime Control and Drug Prevention). For his work in promoting Christian-Jewish reconciliation Weinberg was a recipient of the 1999 Thornton Peace Prize. His books include Global Terrorism (2005), Political Parties and Terrorist Groups (2003, with Ami Pedahzur), Right-Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century (2003, eds. with Peter Merkl), Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism (2003, eds. With Ami Pedahzur) The Democratic Experience and Political Violence (2001, eds. with David Rapoport), The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right (1998, with Jeffrey Kaplan). His articles have appeared in such journals as The British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, and Party Politics. He is the senior editor of the journal Democracy and Security.