JOHN DIXON Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research, Almaty, Kazakhstan. MARK HYDE Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management, University of Plymouth, UK LAWRENCE KELLER Associate Professor Emeritus in the Public Administration Program in the Maxine Goodman Levin College at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USASYLVESTER MURRAY Professor of public administration and Coordinator of the Master's of Public Administration Program at Savannah State University in Savannah, Georgia, USA.YVON PESQUEUX Professor au Conservatoire National des Art et Métiers, Paris, FranceWILLIAM RICHARDSON Odeen-Swanson Professor of Political Science, chair of the Department of Political Science, and director of the W. O. Farber Center for Civic Leadership at The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S. D., USA.ARTHUR SEMENTELLI Associate Professor, School of PublicAdministration, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, Florida, USAVERA VOGELSANG-COOMBE Dean of the College of Graduate Studies at Cleveland State University (CSU), Cleveland, Ohio, USA