MIJKE BOEDELTJE is director of BP-E, an independent research and consultancy bureau MARCO BRUNAZZO is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy BAS DENTERS is Professor of Public Administration at the Department of Political Science and Research Methods, School for Management and Governance, University of Twente, The Netherlands PANOS GETIMIS is Professor of Urban and Regional Policy and Planning at the Department of Economic and Regional Development, Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences, Athens, Greece NIKOS HLEPAS is Associate Professor of Regional Government and Self Government at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece MICHAL ILLNER is a senior scientist in the Institute of Sociology at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, Czech Republic, and a member of its Department for Local and Regional Studies PETER JOHN is Hallsworth Chair of Governance in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, where he is co-director of the Institute of Political Governance (IPEG) ERIC KERROUCHE is CNRS Senior Research Fellow at SPIRIT, the research centre of Bordeaux Institute of Political Science, France ANDERS LIDSTRÖM is Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political Science, Umeå University, Sweden POUL ERIK MOURITZEN is Professor ofPolitical Science at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark SIV SANDBERG is a senior researcher at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Åbo Akademi University, Finland MELANIE WALTER-ROGG is Lecturer at the Department of Empirical Political Research and Policy Analysis at the University of Munich, Germany
