Kerryn Baker is Research Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. She has published in leading journals on issues of electoral reform and women’s political representation, and her book Pacific Women in Politics is forthcoming. Marian Sawer is Public Policy Fellow and Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. She has published 18 books ranging from gender and politics to electoral management, most recently Party Rules? Dilemmas of Party Regulation in Australia (co-edited with Anika Gauja, 2016).