MARTIN BRUSIS Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Policy Research in the University of Munich, Germany NOREEN BURROWS Jean Monnet Chair of European Law, and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK KATY HAYWARD Lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast, UK GIANDOMENICO FALCON Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Trento, Italy GRZEGORZ GORZELAK Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for European Regional and Local Studies at Warsaw University, Poland GYULA HORVÁTH Professor of Regional Policy and Director General of the Centre for Regional Studies at the University of Pécs, Hungary TARVO KUNGLA Lecturer in Public Administration at the University of Tartu, Estonia ANDERS LIDSTRÖM Professor of Political Science at Umeå University, Sweden CAROLYN MOORE Lecturer in German and European Politics at the University of Birmingham, UK FRANCESC MORATA Professor of Political Science and Director of the University Institute of European Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain ROMAIN PASQUIER Researcher and Head of the research team on 'Territorial governance and comparative analysis of public policies', in the Institute of Policy Studies at the University of Rennes, France DARIA DE PRETIS is Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Trento, Italy WILFRIED SWENDEN is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh, UK ANNA TUCHOLSKA is AssistantProfessor in the Centre for European Regional and Local Studies, Warsaw University, Poland