Notes on the Contributors

John Barry is Acting Director of the Institute of Governance and Co-Director of the Centre for Sustainability and Environmental Governance, both at Queen’s University Belfast. His main areas of interest are the normative dimensions of green politics, theories of green political economy, and environmental/sustainability governance.

Peter Doran is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Governance at the Queen’s University, Belfast, and a Researcher at the Northern Ireland Assembly. He works at the interface of environmental policy and academic writing on critical global environmental politics. He is a contributor to the forthcoming volume on the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, Furthering Consensus: Meeting the Challenges of Sustainable Development (2005). Peter is also a senior writer and editor for the Interna­tional Institute for Sustainable Development’s Earth Negotiations Bulletin at United Nations conferences on the environment and development.

Mark Evans is Professor of Political Science and Head of the Department of Politics and Provost of Halifax College at the University of York in the United Kingdom. His books include, amongst others: Charter 88: A Successful Challenge to the British Political Tradition? (1995); Constitution-making and the Labour Party (2003); Policy Analysis and Process (2003), with Graeme Wilson; and, Policy Transfer in Global Perspective (2004). He is editor of the journal Policy Studies, co-ordinator of the Worldwide Universities Public Policy Network and has also published a range of articles on different aspects of policy analysis and British politics in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Political Studies, Public Administration and Public Policy and Administration.

Alan Finlayson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Inter­national Relations, University of Wales Swansea, UK. A political theorist interested in analysing real politics, he is the author of Making Sense of New Labour (2003), editor of Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader and Guide (2004) and co-editor (with Jeremy Valentine) of Politics and Poststructuralism (2002). He has also published numerous articles concerned with Northern Irish politics, British politics, media politics and theories of rhetoric.

Matthew Flinders is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is the author or editor of several books on the inter-relationship between the evolution of the state and models of democracy (most recently, with Ian Bache, Multi-level Governance, 2004).

Colin Hay is Professor of Political Analysis and Head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of a number of books, including Political Analysis (2002), The Political Economy of New Labour (1999) and Re-Stating Social and Political Change (1996). He is co-editor of the journals British Politics and Comparative European Politics, and was recently awarded the UKPAC prize for 2004 for an article published in Public Administration.

Andrew Hindmoor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. He lectures and writes about various aspects of British politics, public policy and rational choice theory. He has recently published New Labour at the Centre: Constructing Political Space (2004) and is currently working on a detailed text on rational choice theory to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the series Political Analysis.

Nicola Hothi is currently working as an Executive Consultant in Public Policy in the UK. Nicola was awarded the UK Consultant of the Year Prize 2004 (awarded annually to the best consultant in Public Policy who has made a tangible difference in social, political and ethical fabric and harmony across the international arena).

Johanna Kantola obtained her PhD from the University of Bristol, where she is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher. She has published articles about gender and the state in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, European Journal of Women’s Studies and European Political Science and contributed chapters to various edited volumes. She is also affiliated to the Political Science Department at the University of Helsinki (Finland), where she published a monograph titled The Mute, the Deaf and the Lost: Gender Equality at the University of Helsinki Political Science Department (2005). She is the co-editor of the Finnish Women’s Studies Journal.

Michael Lister is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Surrey, and was previously an ESRC/Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He has published articles on citizenship and political participation in Government and Opposition and Contemporary Politics, contributed to various edited collections, and is currently researching the impact of local governance institutions upon citizenship participation.

David Marsh is Professor of Political Sociology and Head of Department of the Department of Sociology at the University of Birmingham. He is the author/co-author or editor/co-editor of ten books, including Theory and Methods in Political Science (2002), Policy Networks in Comparative Perspective (1998), Marxism and Social Science (1999) and Post-war British Politics in Perspective (1999).

James Martin is Senior Lecturer in the Politics Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He has published on Italian political theory of the interwar period, particularly the work of Antonio Gramsci, and contemporary poststructuralist and post-Marxist theory.

Matthew Paterson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has published widely on the politics of climate change, in particular in Global Warming and Global Politics (1996), and more generally on critical approaches to global environmental politics, including Understanding Global Environmental Politics (2000). He is currently working on a book on cars.

B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also Professor II at Hogskolan i Bodo in Norway and at the City University of Hong Kong. Among his recent publications are the Handbook of Public Administration, co-edited with Jon Pierre, 2003. The Quest for Control: Politicization in the Civil Service, co-edited with Jon Pierre, 2004 and the second edition of Institutional Theory in Political Science (1999).

Jon Pierre is Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg and adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He previously held a chair in Politics at the University of Strathclyde. He is co-author, with Guy Peters, of Governance, Politics and the State (2000) and Governing Complex Societies (2005), co-editor, with Guy Peters, of Handbook of Public Administration (2003) and editor of Debating Governance (2000).

Vivien A. Schmidt is Professor of International Relations and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University. She has published widely in the areas of European political economy, institutions, and public policy as well as on the philosophy of the social sciences. Her books include Policy Change and Discourse in Europe, co-edited with Claudio Radaelli, (2005); The Futures of European Capitalism (2002); Welfare and Work in the Open Economy, co-edited with F.

Martin Smith is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on public policy and British politics. He is currently directing an ESRC project on policy delivery in the Home Office. He is editor of the journal Political Studies.

Nicola Smith is a Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Showcasing Globalization? The Political Economy of the Irish Republic (2005). Nicola is currently undertaking, with Colin Hay, an ESRC- funded cross-country survey of policy-makers’ attitudes to globalization and European integration.

Georg Sorensen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. His recent books include: The Transformation of the State: Beyond the Myth of Retreat (2004); Changes in Statehood (2001); with Robert Jackson, Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches (2003); Democracy and Democratization: Processes and Prospects in a Changing World, second edition (1998).