Frances Millard is Professor Emerita in the Department of Government and a member of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex. She specialises in the Politics of East Central Europe with special interests in human rights, social policy, and elections. She is twice winner of the George Blazyca Prize of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies - for Elections, Parties, and Representation in Post-Communist Europe (2004) and Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007 (2010). Her other books include Polish Politics and Society (1999) and Embodying Democracy: Electoral System Design in Post-Communist Europe (2002), with Sarah Birch, Marina Popescu and Kieran Williams.