Monica Threlfall is Senior Lecturer in Politics, Loughborough University, UK; and editor of the International Journal of Iberian Studies. She edited Consensus Politics in Spain: Insider Perspectives; and Mapping the Women's Movement: feminist politics and social transformation in the North.
Christine Cousins is Principal Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is the author of Society, Work and Welfare in Europe.
Celia Valiente is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Sociology of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. She has published widely in Spanish.