Pr. Max-Emanuel GEIS He holds the Chair of Public Law at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Moreover, he founded the Centre for Academic and University Law and acts as its director. In addition to his work as a member of the Evaluation Committee of the National Council for Science, he provides expert opinions in the field of public constitutional law. His main areas of research include academic and university law, local government law and constitutional law. He has published numerous works in these fields both as an author and an editor. His most prominent works include : State-supported culture and cultural freedom. An examination of Huber’s concept of a cultural state (Kulturstaat) from a constitutional point of view, Baden-Baden 1990 (Kulturstaat und kulturelle Freiheit. Eine Untersuchung des Kulturstaatskonzepts von Ernst Rudolf Huber aus verfassungsrechtlicher Sicht) ; Public subsidies on self-help centred welfare – constitutional foundations and administrative provisions, Baden-Baden 1997 (Die öffentliche Förderung sozialer Selbsthilfe – Verfassungsrechtliche Grundlagen und verwaltungsrechtliche Ausgestaltung) ; Secondary employment of university teaching staff, Heidelberg 2004 (Die Nebentätigkeit der Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschullehrer) ; Local government law, Munich 2008 (Kommunalrecht) ; Academic and university law in the free state of Bavaria, Heidelberg 2009 (Hochschulrecht im Freistaat Bayern) ; Constitutional Law, Heidelberg 2010 (Staatsrecht). en savoir plus
Universtät Erlangen-Nürberg Institut für Staats und Verwaltungrecht Schillerst. 1 D - 91.054 Erlangen Deutschland
Sebastian MADEJA He works as a scientific assistant to the Chair of Public Law and to the Research Centre for Academic and University Law. His research areas include local government law, constitutional law, academic law and tax law. His publications include monographs and articles in various scientific journals, amongst which the most prominent are: Constitutional law, (Staatsrecht), Heidelberg 2010 in collaboration with Professor Geis ; (The legal foundations of municipalities in constitutional and municipal lawVerfassungsrechtliche und kommunalrechtliche Grundlagen der Kommunen), in Politische Bildung 2010 ; (Federal tax law in the light of the Länders’ legislative powers regarding the organization of higher educationDas Steuerrecht im Lichte der organisationsrechtlichen Kompetenz der Länder im Hochschulrecht), in Wissenschaftsrecht 2010 (to be published shortly). http://www.oer1.jura.uni-erlangen.de/lehrstuhlteam/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiter/akad.-rat-sebastian-madeja.shtml
Universtät Erlangen-Nürberg Institut für Staats und Verwaltungrecht Schillerst. 1 D - 91.054 Erlangen Deutschland
Pr. Anna GAMPER Full Professor at the Department of Public Law at the University of Innsbruck, she is an austrian representative to the Group of Independent Experts in the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities at the Council of Europe. Her research areas include Austrian and comparative constitutional law, general theory of states as well as federalism and local government law. http://www.uibk.ac.at/oeffentliches-recht/mitglieder/gamper/index.html.en
Universtät Innsbrück Rechswissenschaftliche Fakultät Institut fûr offentliches Recht, Staats und Verwaltungslere Innrain 52 d A - 6020 Innsbrück Östereich
Pr. Jean-Benoît PILET (Wallonia and Brussels - capital city) Professor in political science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and member of Cevipol research unit (Centre de recherche sur la vie politique). His works mainly focus on Belgian policies, elections, electoral rules, institutional change, local politics and political elites. He is the author of several articles in scientific journals amongst which Études Électorales, Représentation, Politiques Européennes Comparées, la Revue française de science politique, Res Publica, Études Régionales et Fédérales, Études Électorales Européennes et Ethno-politique. Recently, he has published two books in English: Revolution or Renewal? Reforming Local Politics in Europe (Vanden Broele, Brugge, 2005) and Towards DIY-Politics? Participatory and Direct Democracy at a local level in Europe (Vanden Broele, Brugge, 2007), together with Pascal Delwit, Herwig Reynaert and Kristof Steyvers.
Institut d’études européennes Centre d’étude de la vie politique (CEVIPOL) Avenue F.-D. Roosevelt 39, CP 172 B 1 050 Bruxelles Belgique
Pr. Herwig REYNAERT (Flanders) Professor at the Department of Political Science at Ghent University, he holds the Chair of the Centre for Local Politics and of the Urban Policy Research Centre. He is specialized in comparative local politics. Promoter of a lot of research projects, he is teaching the following courses : local politics ; current problems of local politics and two courses on Belgian politics. Moreover, he acts as the Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of Ghent University. He organizes the Congress on Provincial and Local Politics and the International Congress on Local Politics in Europe and is a member of the Executive Board of the book series Comparative Local Politics (Bruylant publishers),…
Centrum voor Lokale Politiek Vakgroep Politieke Wetenschappen Universiteistraat 8 9000 Gent
Pr. Milena Hristova Stefanova An Associate professor at the Department of Public Administration of the Faculty of Philosophy at Sofia University, she is the Vice-dean of the Faculty. A member of the editorial board of Political Studies Quarterly Journal since 1990, Secretary of the Association of Bulgarian Cities and Regions, secretary of the Institute of Local and Regional Development, she participated in and supervised a large number of research projects or assessments on reforms conerning Bulgarian public administration and especially the implementation of local autonomy reform and participative local democracy in Bulgaria.
Sofia University "St Kliment Ohridski" Public administration Department 15 blvd. Tzar Osvoboditel Sofia 1000 Bulgaria
Dr Constantinos KOMBOS Senior Lecturer in public law at the Department of Law, University of Cyprus and graduate of the University of Hull and of the University of Cambridge, he holds a Ph.D. on the constitutional jurisprudence of the ECJ. His research interests include all aspects of constitutional law, with particular emphasis on the comparative element and on the interconnection between national and transnational legal orders. Specialized in EU constitutional law, he is interested in the problems of access to judicial review and in the variable standards of the fundamental rights protection, as well as in the federal structure and in the division of powers between participating legal entities.
University of Cyprus Law School University of Nicosia 46 Makedonitissas Ave. P.O. Box 24005 1700 Nicosia Cyprus
Pr. Ivan KOPRIC Professor and head of the Chair of Administrative Science at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, he is the Director of the Department of Public Law and Public Administration at the Faculty of Law University of Zagreb and Dean of the Social Sciences Polytechnics in Zagreb. His fields of lectures and researches include administrative science, sociology of public administration, local self-government, comparative administrative systems, organization of public administration and social services, public administration in Croatia. He is the editor of the book series Contemporary Public Administration published by the Social Science Polytechnics in Zagreb, and of the scientific journal Croatian Public Administration. He is a member of the editorial board of two other scientific journals : Review of Social Policy (Zagreb) and Lex Localis (Maribor). In 2009, he was part of the working group who prepared a law project on administrative litigations for the Croatian Ministry of Justice.
Faculty of Law University of Zagreb Trg m. Tita 14 10000 Zagreb Croatia
Pr. Blanca SORO MATEO Permanent lecturer in administrative law, Ph.D. in law from the University of Murcia in 2004, she also holds a master’s degree in environmental politics and management from the University Carlos III of Madrid. Since 2009, she has been an investigator to CNEAI for six years, and she obtained also the Aneca’s Accreditation. She has been lecturing since 1999 in six degree and three post-degree titles. She wrote six monographs on property liability of public administrations, environment and distribution of powers. She also contributes to several collective works (7) and writes doctrinal articles on revocation of administrative license, environmental liability, natural areas planning, administrative organization and distribution of responsibilities. Being the author of the Act on cultural heritage in Murcia Region, she participates both as a convenor and a reporter for many training courses. Director of the International Congress on Property Law, she is invited to various national conferences as an expert reporter. Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law for International and Institutional Relations since November 2005, international co-ordinator of the Centro since 2005, international referee for mobility programs such as Erasmus, Ila, Sicue, Santander Crue, Golondrina, Isep and Erasmus practical training, she is also a member of several projects on innovating and advanced training. Moreover, she also lectures at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lille 2 (France) for European law curriculums. She ordinates the Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sciences (UMU), she manages 12 PFC and 5 master dissertations. She is responsible for a master’s degree on territory arrangement, town planning and environment.
Universidad de Murcia Facultad de Derecho Departamento de derecho administrativo Campus de la Merced Santo Cristo 1 30.001 Murcia Espania
Dr. Vallo OLLE Senior lecturer in administrative law at the Faculty of Law of the University at Tartu. He teaches local government law. He wrote two text-books (2001, 2004), and several papers that have been published in dedicated journals and some others about administrative law. He is a co-author of the two editions of Comments on the Constitution of the Republic of Estonia (2002, 2008). He wrote his Ph.D. on Exercise of local self-government in the form of direct democracy: local public initiative and referendum (2002). He is one of the Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government (Congress of local and regional authorities in Europe (CLRAE), Council of Europe).
University of Tartu Faculty of Law Naïtuse 13A-211 50106 Tartu Estonia
Pr. Eija MÄKINEN Professor of Administrative law (mostly comparative administrative law) at the University of Vaasa. Her main research areas include administrative law, local government law and town planning law. Her most recent monographs deal with : municipal appeals in 2010 ; the status of municipal civil servants (2006, in collaboration with K. Hirvonen) ; judicial control on municipal decisions in environmental matters (2004) ; development agreements and good administration (2000). She is interested in good administration, administration control, public-private relationships, mostly public contracts and public participation.
Vaasa University Faculty of public administration Hallintotieteiden Tiedekunta PO Box 700 FIN 65 101 Vaasa
Mathilde KERNEIS Junior Lecturer at the University of Rouen, she is a member of the Centre for studies on legal systems. She wrote her Ms.D. on semi-direct local democracy as proposed in the 2nd French Decentralization Reform Act and is preparing her Ph.D. on new and innovative techniques in local government law for transferring responsibilities. She also takes part in the research-works of GRALE (Groupement de recherche sur l’administration locale en Europe, CNRS).
Université de Rouen 3 avenue Pasteur 76186 ROUEN CEDEX
Dr Stéphane GUERARD As the OLA research project-manager, he wrote his Ph.D. in public law (University of Paris II – Panthéon-Assas). He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lille 2 and a member of CERAPS (Centre d’études et de recherches administratives, politiques et sociales, a research-unit (UMR 8026) co-funded by CNRS and the University of Lille II). He is the author and co-ordinator of various books and papers on local democracy, decentralization and local government law.http://ceraps.univ-lille2.fr/fr/chercheurs/stephane-guerard.html
Université de Lille 2 CERAPS Faculté des sciences juridiques, Politiques & sociales 1, Place Déliot BP 629 59024 Lille Cedex
Pr. István TEMESI Associate Professor at the Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Public Administration, Corvinus University of Budapest, he lectures in administrative law, administrative sciences and comparative public administration. István Temesi obtained his Ph.D. on the regionalization and regionalism from the Faculty of Law, University of Pécs. His researches focus on the questions of the regional administration in Europe, on the territorial structure of public administration, as well as on the different systems of European local-self government. Author of several articles on local self-government and regionalization published in Hungary, Germany, Russia.
Université de Corvinus Faculté d'administration publique Menesi ut 5 H - 1118 Budapest Hongrie
Dr. Anne-Elisabeth COURRIER She presently holds a position at the Faculty of Public Administration, Corvinus University in Budapest. She earned her doctoral degree in public law from the University of Paris I and Oxford University on Ethos of public services in English and French comparative law (Dalloz : Nouvelle Bibliothèque de thèses, 2004). Then, she won a post-doctoral research contract at the European University Institute of Florence about regulation between hard law and soft law. Her research fields are essentially focused on comparative constitutional law, general public administration issues, public-private divide, the relationships between law and social policies and general issues about regulations.
Université de Corvinus Faculté d'administration publique Menesi ut 5 H - 1118 Budapest Hongrie
Dr. Caroline Creamer Deputy Director of the International Centre for Local and Regional Development (see www.iclrd.org for further information) and a Research Fellow with the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Her research experience and interests include: regional and local development and regeneration, spatial planning practice and policy, collaborative working and participative decision-making, and inter-territorial and cross-border development. She holds a Diploma in Environmental Resources Management from Dublin Institute of Technology, an MA in Geography from NUI Maynooth, an MA in Town and Country Planning from University of the West of England / Open University, and is currently a part-time PhD candidate in NUI Maynooth.
Deputy Director, International Centre for Local and Regional Development (ICLRD) & Research Fellow, National Inmstitute for Regional and Spatial Analysis Iontas Building NUI Maynooth Maynooth Co. Kildare Ireland
Pr. Luciano VANDELLI Full Professor of Administrative Law and Local Government Law at the University of Bologna. He is also Professor at SPISA (Scuola di specializzazione in studi sull'amministrazione pubblica - Post-Graduate Studies on Public Administration) of the University of Bologna, which he directed from 1997 to 2000. He is the President of the Italian section of the Italian-Spanish Association of administrative law professors ; Member of the Executive Committee of the Institut International des Sciences Administratives - Italian Chapter ; Member of the Scientific Committee of the Institut de la Décentralisation (Paris). He has been member of the government of the Emilia-Romagna Region, of the Province of Bologna and of the Council of Bologna. He is now member of the Council of Administrative justice.
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria (Como) Facoltà di Giurisprudenza (Faculté de Droit) Via Bossi, 5 22 100 Como Italia
M. Maris GRUDULIS After nine years spent at the Police Academy in Riga as a lecturer-researcher in private law, he continues today his legal career in the law firm « BJK Advokati », in Riga, while writing his Ph.D.
University of Riga Ezermalas iela 8 Riga LV, 1014 Latvia
Pr. Algirdas ASTRAUKAS Associate Professor in Economics at the Faculty of Administration and the Faculty of Law of the University Mykolas Romeris, Vilnius. He is also an advisor to the Office of the Committee on State Administration and Local Government of Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania. He was an adviser to the Presidency of the Republic (1994-2000) and Vice-Minister at the Ministry of Interior (2000-2005) on matters related to decentralization. He is also author of various works and articles on the same subject.
Université Mykolas Romeris Faculté d'administration publique Valakupiu LT 10.101 Vilnius Lituanie
Dr. Philippe POIRIER Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer in political science at the University of Luxembourg where he is in charge of co-ordinating the European Governance Research Program. He is qualified to supervise Ph.D. students in political science. Since September 2006, he has been an Associate Professor in political science at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication of the University of Paris-Sorbonne IV where he teaches (as well as at the University of Luxembourg) : European Union institutions and policies, history of economic & political ideas, political and economic governance, comparative European politics and since December 2009 he has also taught at the Collège des Bernardins. Since July 2009, he has co-Chaired with David Wessels (Sophia University, Japan) the Religion and Politics Research Committee of International Political Science Association (IPSA). Since July 2008, he has been the general delegate of Luxembourg Political Science Association (Luxpol). His research areas are : comparative European politics, European Union governance, politics and religion in Europe, politics in Luxembourg. He recently issued as co-editor with Sandrine Devaux & René Leboutte : Rome Treaty : Multidisciplinary views, Peter Lang editions, June 2009.
Université du Luxembourg Faculté des lettres, des sciences humaines, des arts et des sciences de l'éducation Campus Limpertsberg 162 a Avenue de la Faïencerie L - 1511 Luxembourg Luxembourg
Dr. Isabella CALLEJA Graduate from the University of Malta with a B.A. (Gen.) in History, Classics and Contemporary Mediterranean Studies and a B.A. (Hons) in History. After she obtained a Chevening scholarship she pursued further studies in the Politics and Government of European States with an emphasis on the Southern dimension and EU politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science where she obtained an M.Sc. on the subject. She completed her studies under the supervision of Dr. Robert Leonardi from the European Institute at the London School of Economics where she obtained her Doctorate in politics. The emphasis of her research was in the field of Democratization and the role of the external domain, indeed attempting to adopt a cross disciplinary approach and merge the field of Political Science and International Relations. The title of her doctoral dissertation which is a forthcoming publication is : The Role of External Players in Democratization in Southern Europe: The Cases of Malta and Cyprus. She is presently head of the Department of International Relations at the University of Malta where she lectures on International Politics, she teaches courses in politics and governance, political parties, democratization studies in the Southern Europe and North Africa, and EU politics and External Relations, among others. She has published various papers in her areas of interest including a recent publication on The Political System of Malta for a Commission publication on the 27 member-states of the EU.
University of Malta Faculty of Arts Department of International Studies MSD 2080 Malta
Pr. Kevin AQUILINA Associate Professor in public law and head of the Department of Media, Communications and Technology Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Malta. He holds a doctorate of philosophy in law (Ph.D.) from the London School of Economics and Political Science of the University of London and a doctorate in public law from the University of Malta (LL.D.). He lectures on international law, environmental law and administrative law. He has held the office of Chief Executive of the Maltese audiovisual broadcasting regulator – the Broadcasting Authority – and was Chairman of the Planning Appeals Board. Moreover, he is the author of various books, he wrote several reports for Maltese and foreign institutions and has published papers in edited books and articles in peer reviewed journals apart from various contributions to the print and broadcasting media. His books include Development Planning Legislation: The Maltese Experience (Malta : Mireva Publications, May, 1999, XCIII + 616 pp); A List of Maltese Maritime Legislation Together with a Subject Index (Malta : June, 1992, I + 88 pp); a 6 volume compilation of Decisions of the Planning Appeals Board (Malta : Legal Publishing (Enterprises) Ltd., 1995 – 1998 consisting in 1208 p.). His papers have been published in peer reviewed journals such as the Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights, Melita Historica, the BOV Review, Law and Practice, Future Generations Journal and Id-Dritt Law Journal. Furthermore, he is a regular contributor to IRIS – Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, of the Council of Europe.
University of Malta Faculty of Arts Department of International Studies MSD 2080 Malta
Dr. Marcel BOOGERS Associate Professor afiliated with the School of Politics and Public Administration at Tilburg University. He has published extensively on local politics. His research interests involve local elites, local political parties, political cultures and central-local relations. Recently, he has been leading a research project on local voting behaviour and voter turnout in Dutch local elections. http://bit.ly/h1hDGI
University de Tilburg Faculty of Law Tilburg school of politics and public administration Postbus 90.153 5000 Le Tilburg Nederlands
Dr. Linze SCHAAP Associate Professor at the School for Politics and Public Administration, Tilburg University, he previously worked at the Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has published books and articles on the (im)possibilities of societal steering, sub-national government, citizen-government relations at the local level, and mayoral performance. Most of his recent research efforts have an international comparative perspective. He is co-ordinator of the EGPA permanent Study Group on Local Governance and Democracy. Between 1999 and 2005, he was a member of the Provincial Council of the Province of South Holland.
University de Tilburg Faculty of Law Tilburg school of politics and public administration Postbus 90.153 5000 Le Tilburg
Pr. Beata MARCZEWSKA Since 1996, she's assistant professor at Warsaw University, in the Centre for Studies in Local Government and Development, where she is currently employed as an assistant professor. Being an expert she has been participating in many projects in the Parliamentary Committee for Local Government and Regional Policy as well as the Senate Committee for Local Government and Public Administration. Her Ph.D. dissertation : Sociopolitical Conditions and Aims of Changes in the Public Administration System in Poland, was written under Professor Andrzej Piekara.'s supervision. She has taken part (both as a director and team member) in several research projects, including those related to the system of local administration, such as : Local creation and implementation of the public interest, Integrative studies of the local level in Europe, Research programme within FP6 – priority 7 (Citizens and governance in a knowledge based society, Aims and effectiveness of public administration reform in Poland between 1999 and 2001.
Université de Varsovie Centre d'études et de recherches sur les collectivités territoriales et le développement local Centrum Studiów Samorzadu Terytorialnego i Rozwoju Lokalnego UW ul. Nowy Swiat 4 - 00 - 497 Warszawa Polska
Pr. Carla Amado GOMES Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon where she has been the Vice-Chair of the Institute for Legal Co-operation (since 2007) and of the Council on Fiscal Studies at the Institute for Political Studies (since 2009). She was the Vice-Dean of the Faculty in 2005-2006 and Associate –Judge at the Constitutional Court (1998-1999). Her publications include Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environment Law, Law on Cultural Heritage, on Education, European Union Law.
Instituto de Ciências Juridico-Politicas Faculdade de Direito Alameda da Universidade Cidade Universitária 1649-014 Lisboa Portugal
Pr. José Alberto De MELO ALEXANDRINO Professor of public law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon. Before he became an academic, he had had a career as a lawyer (1986-2001) and as a legal expert (1988–2001). He holds a Ph.D. in public law from the University of Lisbon : A estruturação do sistema de direitos, liberdades e garantias na Constituição portuguesa under Mr. Rebelo de Sousa’s supervision and a Ms. degree in public law from the University of Lisbon : Estatuto Constitucional da Actividade de Televisão. He took part in two committees in charge of writing a law proposal to establish the regime and policy of cultural goods (1998 and 2000). He was a member of the Research Centre of the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon (within the research group « International Relations and cooperation with Portuguese-speaking countries»). His research areas : constitutional law, international law, fundamental rights, decentralization law, public management, cultural goods law. He wrote four works and several scientific articles and co-authored two books. His most recent publications include : A estruturação do sistema de direitos, liberdades e garantias na Constituição portuguesa, 2 volumes Coimbra, Almedina, 2006; Direitos Fundamentais : Introdução Geral, Estoril, Principia, 2007. http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=3755200746372773
Instituto de Ciências Juridico-Politicas Faculdade de Direito Alameda da Universidade Cidade Universitária 1649-014 Lisboa Portugal
Dr Petr Jüptner Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague, he is a researcher of projects of the Czech Science Foundation (2006-2008 Postdoctoral Grant “Europeanization of Czech Local Politics. Political Science Analysis of European Legislative Trends”, since 2010 “Instruments for amalgamation of fragmented local governments. Analysis of experiences and practice across European countries: references for Czech Republic.”). He is focused on local government and on problematic of direct mayor elections.
Univerzita Karlova v Praze Fakulta socialnich ved 158 00 Praha 5 U Krize 8
Dr Karolina Malcova Graduated political science at the Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague 2008, she is currently a fourth year Ph.D. student at the Department of Political Science. She focuses on the issue of elections, electoral systems and voting behaviour, especially in conditions of the Czech Republic. At the same time participates in a research project on European local politics (project of the Czech Science Foundation “Instruments for amalgamation of fragmented local governments. Analysis of experiences and practice across European countries: references for Czech Republic.").
Dr Kamil Svec Post gradual student and a lecturer at the IPS FSV UK, he is focused on local and regional government. He is a solver of a project of Grant agency at the Charles's University called "The Application of Coalition Theory on the Regional Level in the Czech Republic". He wrote several articles about the application of theory of coalitions on a regional level in the Czech Republic and he is a co-editor of collective monograph "European Local Politics" (2007.) Kamil Švec participate in the grant project of the Czech Science Foundation “Instruments for amalgamation of fragmented local governments. Analysis of experiences and practice across European countries: references for Czech Republic."
Pr. Ana RODICA STAICULESCU Professor of sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Administrative Sciences and Sociology, University "Ovidius" Constanta, Romania, she is a member of several national and international professional associations and several executive boards. She is an expert reviewer of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education and an expert reviewer of several research programs. Her Ph.D. in (summa cum laude), specialization in "Demography" of the University of Paris I - Panthéon- Sorbonne is entitled Humanities and Human SciencesLongitudinal Approaches of Population Mobility in Romania: Study of the Life Cycle of Romanian Generations (1931-1951) (Ph.D. New system. 94/PA01/0625). She supervises Ph.D. students in the field of sociology at the Doctoral School of the University of Bucharest, Romania. Her research focuses on the areas of demography and sociology. Specialized in sociology and demography, the author focuses on the issues of fundamental human rights, biographies, the building of European identity and topics raised by the issues of demography and sociology.
Université Ovidius Faculté de droit et des sciences administratives Centre des recherches pour les roits de l'homme et la non-discrimination Akea Universitatü nr 1 Constanta Romania
Pr. Emil BALAN Professor and Vice Rector at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration from Bucharest, he teaches Administrative Law, Financial Law, Administrative Procedure and Administrative Law of Goods. Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, he teaches administrative law, financial law, administrative procedure and administrative law of goods. Presently, his main research interest is the right to a good administration and its impact on administrative procedures. Since 2009, he has been the elected President of the Romanian Institute of Public Law and Administrative Sciences and since 2008, he has been the founder and President of the Romanian Academic Society of Administrative Sciences.
Ecole nationale d'études politiques et d'administration publique Faculté d'administration publique 6-8 Povernei St Sector1, Cod010641 Bucarest
Pr. Alistair COLE (Wales) Professor of Politics science in Cardiff School of European Studies. His research interest lies in the sphere of contemporary and comparative European politics and policy, with special (but not exclusive) reference to French and Franco-British comparisons. His most recent books include Governing and Governance in France (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Beyond Devolution and Decentralization: Building Regional Capacity in Wales and Brittany (Manchester University Press, 2006).
Cardiff University Politics Department School of European Studies 65-68 Park Place Cardiff CF 103 AS Wales UK
Pr. Colin COPUS (England) Professor of local politics and Director of the Local Governance Research Unit in the Department of Public Policy, De Montfort University. His main research interests include local party politics, local political leadership, the changing role of the councillor and small party and independent politics. He also researches and writes on English national identity and English governance. He has recently concluded two major research projects : the first a Leverhulme funded project exploring the role and impact of small political parties, independent politics and political associations in local government ; the second, a Nuffield funded comparative project examining the roles, responsibilities and activities of councillors across Europe. Colin is the author of two major books : Leading the Localities : Executive Mayors in English Local Governance, Manchester University Press, 2006 and Party Politics and Local Government
De Monfort University Department of public policy Local governance research unit The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH
Pr. Deborah PEEL (Scotland and Northern Ireland) Professor of Planning Research and Scholarship, she is a core member of the Built Environment Research Institute at the University of Ulster. Before she was an academic, she worked in local government. Her research interests include forms of modern governance, statutory land use planning, stakeholder engagement and public participation, and the integration of spatial planning into all areas of public policy.
University of Ulster School of the Built Environment Shore Road Newtownabbey Co. Antrim BT37 0QB Northern Ireland
Pr. Ludmila MALIKOVA Professor of political science, she is the director of the Institute for Public Policy of Comenius University in Bratislava. Member of the editing board of the Slovak Sociological Review. National co-ordinator of the international project ‘Public sector innovation’ (5th European Framework program, EC, Brussels) from 2003 to 2006. Research fields : Regional and local policies, Post-communist transition in Central European countries, Local governance and administrative reforms, Perception on representative democracy at a local level.
Comenius University Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences Institute of Public Policies Odbojarov 10/A 820 05 Bratislava Slovakia
Dr. Primož PEVCIN Assistant Professor for Public Sector Economics at the Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, he has earned his bachelor, master and doctoral degrees in Economics at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics. His research interest is predominantly focused on economic analysis of government system, of politics and law in central government , as well as on business-government relations.
Univerza de Ljubljana Fakulteta ZA Upravo Gosarjeva ulica 5 SI 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia
Pr. Stig MONTIN Professor in political science, director of Örebro School of Public Affairs and research coordinator for Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CUReS), Örebro University (www.oru.se). His main research fields and education include local and regional governance and democracy, and public administration in general. http://www.oru.se/humus/stig_montin.
Örebro universitet Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CUReS) and Örebro Research School of Public Affairs Akademin för humaniora, utbildning och samhällsvetenskap (HumUS) Örebro universitet 701 82 Örebro
Pr. Ulas BAYRAKTAR Associate Professor of Political Science in the Public Administration Department of the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at Mersin University in Turkey, Ulas Bayraktar obtained his doctorate from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. His research focuses on the decentralization reforms, local politics and local democracy, particularly in Turkey.
Mersin Universitesi IIBF Kamu Yonetimi Böl. Ciftlikkoy 33342Mersin-Turkey
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