BASILIO ACERETE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Zaragoza, SpainPINAR AKKOYUNLU is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Finance at Istanbul University, TurkeyNICHOLAS ANDERSON is Senior Vice-President at the Swedish Export Credit Corporation (SEK)DARINKA ASENOVA is Reader in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Risk at Glasgow Caledonian University, UKMIROSLAV BEBLAVÝ is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, Chairman of the Slovak Governance Institute and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels, BelgiumMATTHIAS BECK is Professor of Public Sector Management and Research Director at the University of York Management School, UKIAN ELLIOTT is Lecturer and Programme Leader of the Executive Masters in Public Services Management at Queen Margaret University, UKJOHN HOOD is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Risk at Glasgow Caledonian University, UKNEVENKA HROVATIN is Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaSURK-TAE KIM is Professor in the Department of Public Administration at Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South KoreaHULYA KIRMANOGLU is Professor in the Department of Public Finance, Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University, TurkeyPETER MEDERLY is Associate Professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, SlovakiaEMÍLIASI?ÁKOVÁ-BEBLAVÁ is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Comenius University in Bratislava, SlovakiaHARTWIG PAUTZ is Lecturer in the Department of Economic Studies and International Business at Glasgow Caledonian University, UKBILL STEIN is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting, Finance& Risk at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK