Biographical note

Patrick Dunleavy is a professor from the London School of Economics (LSE) in the fields of public policy and government. Some of his other work includes Digital Era Governance: IT Corporations, the State, and E-Government, Government on the Web, and Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Choice. He lives in Milton Keynes. Brendan O'Leary is an Irish political scientist, who is Lauder Professor of Political Science and Director of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly a professor at the London School of Economics. He is the author of numerous influential books about the Northern Ireland conflict, many of them co-authored with John McGarry.