PETER GIBBON Senior Researcher, Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, Denmark NICOS MOUZELIS Professor, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Politics, UK LARS PETTERSON Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, University College of Dalarna and the Department of History, Uppsala University, Sweden OLLE TÖRNQUIST Associate Professor of Political Science, Uppsala University, Sweden MICHAEL THARAKAN Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India KIRSTEN WESTERGAARD Research Coordinator, Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, Denmark KARINA CONSTANTINO-DAVID Professor of Community Development, University of the Philippines LARS RUDEBECK Associate Professor of Political Science, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden ABDUL RAUFU MUSTAPHA Lecturer in African Politics, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University BJÖRN BECKMAN Associate Professor of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden ATTAHIRU M. JEGA Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria ANN SCHLYTER Associate Professor of Construction Technology, Research Director, Scandinavian Institute of African Studies BOSCO PARRA Senior Researcher, Seminar for Development Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden