FRANK BERNER Senior Researcher, German Centre of Gerontology in Berlin and Head of the Office of the Expert Commission for the National Social Report on the Situation of the Elderly in Germany ULRIKE DAVY Chair for constitutional and administrative law, social law, and comparative law at the Faculty of Law, Bielefeld University, Germany EDGAR GRANDE Professor for Political Science at the University of Munich, Germany MARKUS HAVERLAND Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Public Administration, School of Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands LUTZ LEISERING Professor of Social Policy at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany, and founding member of the University's Institute for World Society Studies DEBORAH MABBETT Reader in Public Policy in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London, UK GIANDOMENICO MAJONE Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy CHRISTIAN MARSCHALLEK Sociologist and Member of the REGINA Research Project at Bielefeld University, Germany PETER TAYLOR-GOOBY Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent, UK, and Director of the ESRC Social Contexts and Responses to Risk Programme