Edited by Mallory Compton, Postdoctoral Researcher, Utrecht University School of Governance, and Paul 't Hart, Professor of Public Administration, Utrecht University School of Governance and Netherlands School of Public Administration

Mallory Compton is a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University School of Governance, which she joined after obtaining a PhD from Texas A&M University. Her research interests include policy dynamics, social capital, social policy and bureaucratic performance. She has previously published on these topics in journals such as Journal of Politics, Public Administration and Public Management Review.

Paul 't Hart is Professor of Public Administration at Utrecht University and Associate Dean of the Netherlands School of Public Administration (NSOB) in The Hague. He resumed both positions in mid-2011, after spending five years as Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University. His research interests include public leadership, success and failure in public policy, public accountability, political-administrative relations, and group dynamics in government. His recent books include The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership (Oxford University Press 2014), Routledge Compendium to Leadership (Routledge 2016), The Leadership Capital Index: A New Perspective on Political Leadership (Oxford University Press 2017). He was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014. In 2016, he was awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Science Foundation for a 5-year program investigating the nature and preconditions of highly successful public governance

Frederike Albrecht is Researcher at the Department of Government, the Department of Earth Sciences, and research fellow at the Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Armando Barrientos is Professor in Poverty and Social Justice at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

Azad Singh Bali is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Emma Blomkamp is an Honorary Fellow at The University of Melbourne and Co-Design and Evaluation Lead at strategic design consultancy Paper Giant, Australia.

Richard Callahan is a Professor in the School of Management at the University of San Francisco, United States.

Paul Cairney is Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling, Scotland.

Mallory E. Compton is a postdoctoral researcher with the School of Governance at Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Tereza Cristina Cotta is a permanent civil servant from the Brazilian Ministry of Planning, Development and Public Management.

Paul 't Hart is professor of Public Administration at Utrecht University and Associate Dean of the Netherlands School of Public Administration (NSOB) in The Hague.
Rainer Kattel is professor of innovation and public governance at Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London, and research professor at Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.

Adrian Kay is Professor of Government in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.

Jaakko Kauko, is Professor in Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Tampere, Finland.

Jenny M Lewis is Professor of Public Policy in the School of Social and Political Sciences and Director of The Policy Lab at The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Michael Mintrom is a Professor of Public Sector Management at Monash University, Australia.

Ines Mergel is full professor of Public Administration in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Camilla Bakken Øvald is Assistant Professor at Kristiania College, Norway.

Luis Henrique Paiva is a permanent civil servant from the Brazilian Ministry of Planning.

Charles F. Parker is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government and serves as the vice-chair of the board for the Centre for Natural Disaster Science at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Kentil Raknes is a PhD-candidate at Kristiania College, Norway.

M Ramesh is Professor of Public Policy and UNESCO Chair on Social Policy Design in Asia at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

Florian Spohr is a research associate at the Chair of Comparative Politics at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Eva Sørensen is a Professor with the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark.

Arwin van Buuren is endowed professor at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Madeline Thomas is a Research and Administrative Assistant at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.

Jacob Torfing is professor in politics and institutions at Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark.

Bent Sofus Tranøy is professor in the School of Communication, Leadership, and Marketnig at Kristian University College and at the Department of Organisation, Leadership and Management at the Inland School of Business and Social Sciences, Norway.