Welcome New Editorial Board Members: Yue Zhang, Alicia Ziccardi

Yue Zhang is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. Her principal research interest is comparative urban politics, urban governance, and urbanization in developing countries. She is the author of The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation: Beijing, Chicago, and Paris. 

http://pols.uic.edu/political-science/people/faculty/yzhang

Alicia Ziccardi has a PhD in Economics (National Autonomous University of Mexico- UNAM), and is a researcher at the Institute for Social Research- UNAM, member of the National System of Researchers and the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She is currently the Director of the University City Studies Programme – UNAM, and author and coordinator of several books and journal articles on urban poverty, social exclusion, urban policy, citizen participation, governability and local governments. 

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.iis.unam.mx/indexcontent.php%3F_module%3D120&prev=search

Welcome New Editorial Board Members: Jessica Trounstine, Ron Vogel, Mildred Warner

Jessica Trounstine is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California, Merced. She studies representation, elections, political parties, and public goods distributions at the local level in the United States. Trounstine uses both quantitative and qualitative evidence in her research and focuses on inequality across different political dimensions. She is the author of Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers (University of Chicago Press) and has published numerous articles in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, American Politics Research, Urban Affairs Review, and Political Research Quarterly. She earned her PhD in 2004 from the University of California, San Diego and served as an Assistant Professor at Princeton University prior to moving to UC Merced.

http://polisci.ucmerced.edu/trounstine

Ronald K. Vogel is Professor of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He serves on the Governing Board of the Urban Affairs Association and heads the Comparative Urban Politics group in the American Political Science Association.

http://www.ryerson.ca/politics/facultyandstaff/bio_RonVogel.htm

Mildred Warner is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. Her work focuses on local government service delivery (privatization and inter-municipal cooperation), devolution and state-local relations, and economic development policy. She explores geographic disparity in service delivery and public finance across the urban to rural spectrum.

http://aap.cornell.edu/people/mildred-warner

Welcome New Editorial Board Members: Clarence N.Stone, Todd Swanstrom, Pawel Swianiewicz

Clarence N. Stone is Research Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at George Washington University. His research interests have long centered on city politics. Most recently he has co-authored a book on urban neighborhoods, forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.

https://politicalscience.columbian.gwu.edu/clarence-stone

Todd Swanstrom is the Des Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His co-authored book, Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century (3^rd ed. 2014) won the Michael Harrington Award from the New Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

http://www.umsl.edu/~polisci/About%20The%20Department/profiles.html

Pawel Swianiewicz is Professor of Economics at University of Warsaw and Head of the Department of Local Development and Policy at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies. He is an adviser on local government issues to the President of Poland since 2010. From 2005 to 2010 he was President of the European Urban Research Association.

http://www.president.pl/en/advisors/voluntary-advisors/pawel-swianiewicz/

Welcome New Editorial Board Members: Ringa Raudla, Jefferey Sellers, Gerry Stoker

Ringa Raudla is a Professor of Public Finance and Governance and the director of the PhD Program at Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. Her main research interests are institutional economics, public finance, budgeting, financial management and performance management. She has published widely in leading journals, including Governance, Public Administration, and Journal of Public Policy. She is a board member of NISPAcee and coordinates the study group on fiscal administration in IIAS. 

http://www.ttu.ee/faculty-of-social-sciences/ragnar-nurkse-school-of-innovation-and-governance/department/the-chair-of-governance/ringa-raudla/

Jefferey Sellers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern California. His research is focused on comparative analysis of institutions and state society relations from the “bottom-up” perspective of cities and communities.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/polsci/sellers/

Gerry Stoker is a Professor of Politics and Governance at the University of Southampton, UK. His main research interests are in governance, democratic politics, local and regional governance, urban politics, public participation and public service reform. He was the founding chair of the New Local Government Network that was the think-tank of the year in 2004 and his most recent book Why Politics Matters won the 2006 political book of the year award from the Political Studies Association of the UK. He has provided advice to various parts of UK government and is also an expert advisor to the Council of Europe on local government and participation issues. 

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/about/staff/gs1l06.page

Welcome New Editorial Board Members: John Mollenkopf, Thomas Ogorzalek, Marion Orr

John Mollenkopf is a Distinguished Professor at CUNY Graduate Center and directs the Center for Urban Research. He received his PhD from Harvard and his teaching and research interests focus on urban politics and public policy, including New York City politics, immigrant political participation, and the new immigrant second generation. He has authored or edited fifteen books on urban politics, urban policy, the politics of urban development, and New York City.

http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Political-Science/Faculty-Bios/John-Mollenkopf

Thomas Ogorzalek is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the role of cities in American political development and the politics of rapidly changing communities in the United States.

http://www.polisci.northwestern.edu/people/core-faculty/thomas-ogorzalek.html

Marion Orr is the Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies at Brown University. His research focuses on urban politics, the politics of urban schools, race and ethnic politics, and community organizing. He is the author and editor of six books including, Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore. He is the editor of Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change. He has held a number of fellowships, including an appointment as Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Presidential Fellowship from the University of California, Berkeley, and a fellowship from the Ford Foundation. He is a former president of the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. He also served as chair of the governing board of the Urban Affairs Association.

http://www.brown.edu/academics/taubman-center/about/people/marion-orr

Welcome New Editorial Board Members: Steve Martin, Steve McGovern, Scott Minkoff

Steve Martin is a Professor of Public Policy and Management at Cardiff University and Director of the Public Policy Institute for Wales. His research is focused on public service improvement, local governance, evaluation and evidence-based policy. He has published widely in leading journals including Public Administration, Regional Studies, and Public Management Review.

http://business.cardiff.ac.uk/people/staff/stephen-martin

Steve McGovern is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Haverford College. He is the author or co-author of two books and many journal articles on city politics, urban development, and grassroots politics. Much of his research explores the relationship between ideas, ideology, and political culture and urban power relations, as well as the dynamic between societal change and political change in American cities.

http://www.haverford.edu/faculty/smcgover

Scott L. Minkoff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College in New York City. His current work focuses on local goods provision and its impact on the social and political development of neighborhoods. His research frequently involves the use of spatial statistics, geographic information systems, and network analysis.

https://polisci.barnard.edu/profiles/scott-minkoff

Welcome New Editorial Board Members: Anders Lidström, Zhilin Liu, John Lombard

Anders Lidström is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Political Science at Umeå University in Sweden. His research focus is on urban, local and regional politics and government, particularly in a comparative perspective. He is the convenor for the European Consortium on Political Research standing group on local government and politics. Recent publications include several articles on citizenship in city-regions and the co-authored, The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe.

http://www.pol.umu.se/svenska/about-the-department/staff/anders-lidstrom/

Zhilin Liu is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, China. Her research interests include urban planning and governance, affordable housing policy, and sustainable urbanization. 

http://www.sppm.tsinghua.edu.cn/english/faculty/fulltime/26efe4891f406f6b011f644ee2450098.html

John Lombard is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Public Administration at Old Dominion University. His research is focused on corporate relocation, economic development policy and incentives, homeowner associations and policy, GIS and spatial analyses. 

https://www.odu.edu/directory/people/j/jlombard 

Welcome New Editorial Board Members: Janet Kelly, Pekka Kettunen, Vladimir Kogan

Janet Kelly is a Professor of Urban and Public Affairs and Executive Director of the Urban Studies Institute at the University of Louisville. Her research is focused on state and local government finance and economic development. Professor Kelly also holds four professional certifications in public finance and accounting.

http://louisville.edu/upa/people/faculty/department-faculty/janet-m.-kelly-ph.d

Pekka Kettunen is a Researcher at Abo Akademi University, Finland. His research focuses on policy analysis, evaluation, comparative analysis and local government research. His research has appeared in Local Government Studies, Regional and Federal Studies, and Policy & Evaluation. He is a board member of several Finnish and international scientific associations.

Vladimir Kogan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University. He studies state and local politics, education governance, and political reform in the United States. In 2010, Kogan was the recipient of the Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award from the Urban Affairs Association. He is co-author of Paradise Plundered: Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego, which won the best book award from the American Political Science Association’s Section on Urban Politics.

https://polisci.osu.edu/people/kogan.18

Welcome New Editorial Board Members: Nikos Hlepas, Mirya Holman, Changhoon Jung

Nikos Hlepas is an Associate Professor of Regional Administration and Self Government at the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He has published several books and articles on local governance.

http://en-uoa-gr.academia.edu/NikosHlepas

Mirya Holman is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. Her research focuses on women and politics and urban politics, including Women in Politics in the American City (Temple University Press, 2014) and other research on gender politics, urban politics, voting, and race and ethnic politics.

http://www.miryaholman.com/

http://www.fau.edu/politicalscience/MHolman.php

Changhoon Jung is a Professor at Inha University in Korea. His research focuses on interlocal cooperation, state-level tax and expenditure limits, and local government finance. He was previously on the political science faculty at Auburn University as a Center for Government Service Fellow.

http://eng.inha.ac.kr/acade/SocialScience_Public.asp?code=ZYVV47&pGubun2=faculty&prSrchType=detail

Welcome New Editorial Board Members: Michael Craw, Nuno Cruz, Christopher Hawkins

Michael Craw is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Institute of Government. His research focuses on urban equality, local public finance and community development. His work has appeared in Urban Affairs Review and the American Journal of Political Science.

http://ualr.edu/iog/faculty-and-staff/

Nuno Ferreira da Cruz is a Research Fellow at LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include local governance, management and delivery of urban services, privatisation, transparency and sustainability indicators, benchmarking, and a number of interrelated topics. This work has been published in Cities, Public Administration, Local Government Studies, Public Money & Management, Environment and Planning C, Utilities Policy, Omega, among many other venues. He has been a frequent collaborator of the Transparency International movement and he is currently the Coordinator of the ‘New Urban Governance’ project co-funded by the MacArthur Foundation.

http://lsecities.net/about/whos-who/centre-staff/

Christopher V. Hawkins is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida. His research focuses on metropolitan governance, interlocal collaboration, economic development and urban politics, and local sustainability policy. He also serves as director of the Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning program at UCF.

http://www.cohpa.ucf.edu/directory/christopher-hawkins/

Welcome New Editorial Board Members: Germà Bel, Kenneth Bickers, Robin Boyle

Germà Bel is a Professor of Economics at University of Barcelona, where he is the director of the Pasqual Maragall Chair on Economy and Territory, and of the research unit Government and Markets. He has been a Visiting Professor at Cornell and Princeton. His research focuses on the economics and politics of public sector reform, infrastructure and transportation, and local public services.

http://www.barcelonagse.eu/faculty.php?id=28

Kenneth Bickers is Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado-Boulder. His current research is focused on the consequences of devolution of federal policy activities to states and local communities, studying campaigns and elections of candidates for local offices, and exploration of the relationship between residential mobility and local politics. He is a member of the executive council of the American Political Science Association's Section on Urban Politics.
http://polsci.colorado.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/kenneth-bickers

Robin Boyle is a Professor of Urban Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Wayne State University. His research focuses on planning and design for an aging society, investment patterns in residential and retail development, and issues of vacant land in central cities. He is co-chair of the Detroit chapter of the Urban Land Institute and serves on the board of the Michigan Suburbs Alliance.

http://www.clas.wayne.edu/r-boyle