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Tofigh Maboudi is an associate professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago. He specializes in comparative constitutional studies, environmental laws and policies, and Middle Eastern politics. He is the author of Constituents Before Assembly: Participation, Deliberation, and Representation in the Crafting of New Constitutions (2017) and The “Fall” of the Arab Spring: Democracy’s Challenges and Efforts to Reconstitute the Middle East (2022). His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Environmental Policy and Governance, Government and Opposition, and Political Research Quarterly, among other outlets.

Todd A. Eisenstadt is professor of government at American University and research director of the Center for Environmental Policy. His recent publications include “Specifying the Gap Between Nations’ Outward-Looking and Domestic Climate Policies: A Call for Measures of Domestic Climate Policy Stringency” (with Jennifer Lopez; Climate 11 [2023]), “The ‘Adaptation Paradox’ and Citizen Ambiguity over Government Climate Policies: Survey Findings from Bangladesh” (with Tawfique Haque, Michael Toman, and Matthew Wright; Sustainability 14 [2022]), and Climate Change, Science, and the Politics of Shared Sacrifice (with Stephen E. MacAvoy; 2022).

Moisés Arce is the Scott and Marjorie Cowen Chair in Latin American Social Sciences and professor in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University. Professor Arce specializes in conflict processes, democratic governance, and environmental politics. He is the author of Market Reform in Society (2005), Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru (2014), Social Protest and Democracy (2019), The Roots of Engagement (2022), Popular Politics and Protest Event Analysis in Latin America (2024), and numerous book chapters and journal articles.

Ludovico Feoli is executive director of the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) and a research professor in the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Political Science at Tulane University.

Felipe Antonio Girón Palacios is professor of anthropology and associate researcher at the Archaeological and Anthropological Research Center at del Valle University in Guatemala. A social and cultural anthropologist, his recent research has focused on the adaptations of farmers affected by extreme climate events, such as droughts in Guatemala’s Dry Corridor.