**About the Editor**

#### **Mariano P. Barbato**

Mariano P. Barbato is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Passau. He is DFG-Heisenberg Fellow and Principal Investigator of the DFG-Project of the Pope. A Case Study in Social and Political Transformationat the Center for Religion and Modernity, WWU Munster. Currently on leave in Munster, he is Una Europa Professor at the Otto-Suhr-Institute at the FU Berlin.
