Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Government at Harvard University. She has broad interests in the electoral politics of advanced democracies, with a particular focus on the historical development of party systems in diverse societies. In addition to CES, Mierke-Zatwarnicki is affiliated with the Weatherhead Center’s Canada Program and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. She holds a Master’s degree in political science from the University of Toronto, where she was a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Fellow.