Vasile Boari is Professor at Department of Political Science, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, the Director of the Centre for Political Analysis from the same academic institution, and the founding director of Europolis and East, two international journals. He authored The Philosophy and the Moral Condition of the Politics, The Dialectics of the Moral Conscience – Political Conscience Relationship. A Philosophical Perspective, Introduction in Political Science, Introduction in the Theory of Political Values, and The New Europe and the Quest for Identity. He coordinated and edited numerous volumes of Philosophy and Political Science, and published multiple articles in specialized journals.
Sergiu Gherghina is PhD Researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Leiden, the Netherlands. His fields of interest are political parties, democratization, and legislative behavior. He authored and coordinated nine volumes on party politics, EU institutions and policies, political studies, and public opinion. He published several articles in international journals, being the managing editor of two international peer-reviewed journals (CEU Political Science Journal and Europolis) and publication director of the Centre for Political Analysis from Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca.