Andreas Schedler is professor of political science at the Center for Economic Teaching and Research (CIDE) in Mexico City. He earned his PhD from the University of Vienna. He has conducted research on issues such as anti-political-establishment parties, accountability, democratic consolidation and transition, elections, and authoritarianism. In the field of methodology, he has worked on concept analysis and cross-national measurement. Between 2000 and 2012, he refounded and reconsolidated the Committee on Concepts and Methods (C&M) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), first as its chair then as vice-chair. His articles have appeared in scholarly journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, the Journal of Democracy, the European Journal of Political Research, Party Politics, the Journal of Political Philosophy, and Political Research Quarterly.