LADIPO ADAMOLEKUN is Professor of Public Administration, independent scholar and part-time Professor of Management at the Federal University of Akure, Nigeria MARIE-LOUISE BEMELMANS-VIDEC is Professor of Public Administration at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, a senator in the Netherlands Parliament, and a member of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly PHILIPPE BEZES is a researcher at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches de Science Administrative (CERSA) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) CERSA, France JOERG BOGUMIL is Professor of Comparative Urban and Regional Politics at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany JOHN BURNS is Professor of Public Administration at the Department of Politics and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong ROBET K. CHRISTENSEN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA GERRIT DIJKSTRA is Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration, University of Leiden, Netherlands JOHN HALLIGAN is Professor of Public Administration at the School of Business and Government, University of Canberra, Australia SABINE KUHLMANN is Assistant Professor in politics and government in Germany and Europe at the University of Potsdam, Germany PER LAEGREID is Professor at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway MARTIN LODGE is Lecturer in Political Science and Public Policy at the Department of Government and the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK EDWARD C. PAGE is Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy at the Department of Government of the London School of Economics and Political science, UK B. GUY PETERS is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA JON PIERRE is Professor of Political Sciences at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenberg, Sweden ALEKSANDRA RABRENOVIC is a consultant for the World Bank, Belgrade, Serbia JOHN A. ROHR is Professor of Public Administration at the Centre for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA LUC ROUBAN is Director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at the Centre de Recherches Politique de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF), Paris, France TRUI STEEN is Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration, University of Leiden, Netherlands, and a fellow at the Public Management Institute, University of Leuven, Belgium RICHARD J. STILLMANN, II is Professor of Public Administration at the Department of Public Administration, University of Colorado at Denver, USA, and editor in chief of the Public Administration Review CASPAR VAN DEN BERG is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Public Administration, University of Leiden, Netherlands TONY VERHEIJEN is a Public Sector Management Specialist at the World Bank ANCHRITT WILLE is Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration, University of Leiden, Netherlands CHARLES WISE is Professor and Director of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, Ohio State University, USA LOIS R. WISE is Professor of Public Administration at the School for Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, USA