Författare: R. Andrew Nickson

Norbert Kersting currently holds the Willy Brandt chair on transformation and regional integration at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Janice Caulfield was, until recently, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. R. Andrew Nickson is Reader in Public Management at the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham. Dele Olowu was Professor of Public Administration and Local Government at Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria) and until recently at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands. Hellmut Wollmann is Professor Emeritus at the Humboldt University, Berlin.