Monika Bauhr is an Associate Professor at the Quality of Government Institute at the department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. She has previously been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, the University of Florida and the University of Dar es Salaam. Her research is mainly concerned with the link between democracy and corruption, and the effectiveness of anti-corruption reforms. She works on transparency, international redistribution and foreign aid, civic and electoral engagement, clientelism, and gender and corruption. Her work appears in journals such as the International Studies Quarterly, Global Environmental Politics, Governance and Comparative Political Studies.

Nicholas Charron is an Associate Professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and a research fellow at the Quality of Government Institute. He has previously worked at the University of Memphis and Copenhagen Business School, and consulted for the European Commission, Transparency International, the OECD and the World Bank. His research is mainly in the field of comparative politics, and focuses on political institutions, corruption, decentralisation, public opinion and the European Union at national and sub-national levels. He is one of the authors of the European Quality of Government Index (along with Lewis Dijkstra and Victor Lapuente) and his work has been published in numerous international peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Regional Studies, European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics and European Union Politics.

Lena Wängnerud is a Professor at the Quality of Government Institute at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. She has previously been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on political representation, gender equality processes and the link between gender and corruption. Among her recent books are The Principles of gender-sensitive parliaments and Elites, institutions and the quality of government (co-edited with Carl Dahlström). She is the co-editor, with Helena Stensöta, of the book Gender and corruption: Historic roots and new avenues for research. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Annual Review of Political Science, Governance and Politics & Gender.