Sarah Cormack-Patton is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen. She is a political scientist whose research examines the politics of globalization, and particularly international migration, in the European Union and the United States. Sarah is interested in the economic and social effects of the cross-border movement of people, goods, and capital; the political coalitions that form over the cross-border movement of people, goods, and capital; the conditions under which states permit or limit the entry or exit of goods, capital, and people; and the efficacy of state policies designed to effect the entry or exit of goods, capital, and people. Her current research projects examine the ways in which varying bundles of migrant rights affect immigration policy preferences, the political coalitions that form over immigration policy, and the types of immigration policies enacted. Sarah earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015 and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University from September 2015 to September 2017.

Amalie Sofie Jensen works as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University's Department of Political Science and at the Europe Center. Her research is focused on how individuals respond economically and politically to economic policies, shocks, and information. She is interested in the effects and design of government policies, and how to understand variation in policies over time and across countries from a political perspective. In Amalie’s current work, she looks at policies to affect homeownership and saving behavior, and voters’ formation of economic beliefs and policy preferences in relation to financial conditions and economic news.

Amalie holds a BSc, a MSc, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Copenhagen.

Markus Tepe is a professor of Political Science (Political System of Germany) at the University of Oldenburg. He holds a doctoral degree from the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) and an MA in Political Science, Public Law and Economic Policy from the University of Münster. His research centers on public policies, political economy, and laboratory experiments in social science research. Currently, he is conducting a research project on need-based justice and redistribution (FOR2104) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Jaakko Meriläinen is a Visiting Student Researcher from the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. His primary area of research is Political Economics with empirical emphasis, and he is also interested in Economic and Political History as well as immigration-related questions. Jaakko's current research concerns political careers, economic consequences of political representation, historical development of voting behavior and historical impacts of time saving technologies on women's labor force and political participation.