Transforming Political Leadership in Local Government

'Berg and Rao have provided us with a valuable and righ collection of comparative materials on local political leadership...there is much that academics and professionals can learn from this collection'. - Michael Goldsmith, Public Administration

JOHAN ACKAERT is at Limburgs University Centrum, Belgium
HARALD BALDERSHEIM Professor in Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway
BAS DENTERS Professor of Urban Policy and Politics, University of Twente, The Netherlands
JAUME MAGRE FERRAN Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Barcelona, Spain
XAVIER BERTRANA HORTA Analyst, Centre for Local Innovation, Barcelona, Spain
ERIC KERROUCHE Charge de recherche CNRS, France
PIETER-JAN KLOK Department of Science, Technology, Health and Policy Studies, University of Twente, The Netherlands
ANDRES LADNER Professor and Dr at the Kompetenzzentrum for Public Management, Switzerland
HELGE O. LARSEN Professor at Nesna Unversity College, Norway
STIG MONTIN Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, Orebro University, Sweden
CLARENCE N. STONE Professor, George Washington Institute of Public Policy, George Washington University, USA
JAMES H. SVARA Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, North Carolina State University, USA
HENK VAN DER KOLK Department of Political Science and Research Methods, University of Twente, The Netherlands
HELLMUT WOLLMANN Professor, Department of Political Science, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany