Edited by John Loughlin, Professor John Loughlin is a Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and Affiliate Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge., Frank Hendriks, Professor of Comparative Governance, University of Tilburg, Netherlands, and Anders Lidström, Professor of Politics, University of Umeå, Sweden

Harald Baldersheim is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Arthur Benz is Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Political Science,
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
Marco Brunazzo is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the University of
Trento, Italy.
Sonâ Capková is Assistant Professor in the Department of Regional Development
and Public Administration at Matej Bel University in Banska´ Bystrica, Slovakia.
Alistair Cole is Professor of European Politics at Cardiff University. He has
published widely in the field of French and comparative politics.
César Colino is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration
in the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology at the Spanish National Distance-
Learning University (UNED) in Madrid, Spain.
Colin Copus is Professor of Local Politics and Director of the Local Governance
Research Unit at the School of Public Policy, De Montfort University, UK.
Ana Maria Dobre is an Associated Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences and
the Institute for International and European Policy, University of Leuven, Belgium.
Eloísa Del Pino is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Public Goods and Policies
(IPP) at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Filip De Rynck is Professor of Public Administration at University College Ghent,
Belgium.
Patrick Dumont is Researcher in Political Science at the University of Luxembourg,
Luxembourg.
Franz Fallend is Senior Scientist at the Department of Political Science and
Sociology, University of Salzburg, Austria.
Henry Frendo is Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Maltese
Studies at the University of Malta, Valletta.
Panagiotis Getimis is Professor for Urban and Regional Planning and Policies,
Department of Economic and Regional Development, Panteion University of
Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece.
Jens Blom-Hansen is Professor at the Department of Political Science at the
University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Anne Heeager is a Researcher at the Department of Political Science at the
University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Frank Hendriks is Professor of Comparative Governance at the Tilburg School of
Politics and Public Administration at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Nikos Hlepas is Associate Professor of Regional and Local Government, Department
of Political Science and Public Administration at the National and Capodistrian
University of Athens.
Michal Illner is Senior Scientist in the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences
of the Czech Republic in Prague, and a member of its Department of Local and
Regional Studies, Czech Republic.
Peter John is Hallsworth Chair of Governance in the School of Social Sciences,
University of Manchester, UK.
László Kákai is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies, University
of Pecs, Hungary.
Kersten Kattai is Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science and Governance,
Tallinn University, Estonia.
Raphaël Kies is Researcher in Political Science at the University of Luxembourg,
Luxembourg.
Andreas Ladner is professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University
Institute IDHEAP in Lausanne.
Anders Lidström is Professor of Politics in the Department of Political Science,
University of Umea°, Sweden.
John Loughlin is Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and Affiliate Lecturer
in Politics in Cambridge University. He was previously Professor of European
Politics in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
José M. Magone is Professor of Regional and Global Governance at the Berlin
School of Economics and Law, Germany.
Saulius Nefas is Associate Professor of Public Administration in the Faculty of
Politics and Management at Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania.
Pavlina Nikolova is an International Relations Officer at the European
Commission.
Simona Piattoni is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of
Trento (Italy), where she teaches Comparative Politics, European Politics, and
Local Government.
Jean-Benoît Pilet is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Universite´ Libre
de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Philippe Poirier is Professor of Political Science at the University of Luxembourg,
Luxembourg and Associate Professor at the Colle`ge des Bernardins and Universite´
de Paris IV Sorbonne (Celsa), France.
Lawrence E. Rose is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Linze Schaap is Associate Professor of Public Administration in the Tilburg School
of Politics and Public Administration at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Stanka Setnikar-Cankar is Professor of Economics of the Public Sector in the
Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Stefan Sjöblom is Professor of Local Administration at the Swedish School of Social
Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Gábor Soós is Research Director of the Tocqueville Research Center Budapest,
Hungary.
Georg Sootla is Professor of Public Policy at the Institute of Political Science and
Governance, Tallinn University, Estonia.
Kristof Steyvers is a Lecturer at the Centre for Local Politics, Department of
Political Science of Ghent University, Belgium.
Pawel Swianiewicz is Professor in the Department of Local Development and
Policy, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Jolanta Vaiciuniene is Director of Municipal Training Center in the Faculty of
Social Science at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.
Andrekos Varnava is Lecturer in Modern History in the School of International
Studies Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Flinders University, Australia.
Inga Vilka is Assistant Professor in the Public Administration Department of the
Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Latvia.
Ellen Wayenberg is Assistant Professor in Policy Analysis at University College
Ghent and at Ghent University, Belgium.
Christalla Yakinthou is Country Manager of the International Center for Transitional
Justice's Cyprus Program, and a Research Fellow at the University ofWestern
Australia.
Christina Zimmer is Research Assistant at the Department of Political Science at
Fern Universitaet in Hagen, Germany.