CARLOS CLOSA Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Administration, Complutense University, Madrid COLIN CROUCH Professor of Political and Social Science, European University Institute, Florence, Italy BOB DEACON Professor of Social Policy and Director of the International Social Policy Research Unit, Leeds Metropolitan University MAURIZIO FERRERA Professor of Public Policy and Administration, University of Pavia ULRIKE GOTTING Research Fellow, Centre for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen BILL JORDAN Professor of Social Policy, Department of Social Work and Probation Studies, University of Exeter PAUL ORMEROD Chairman of Post-Orthodox Economics, London and Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Manchester SERGE PAUGAM Sociologist, CNRS GIOVANNA PROCACCI Research Director, Department of Sociology, University of Milan FRITZ SCHARPF Professor of Political Science, Max Planck Institute fur Gesellschaftsforschung, Cologne, Germany KAREL VAN DEN BOSCH Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp