Acknowledgements

This book stems from the High Level Seminar entitled ‘Multi-Level Governance: The Missing Linkages’ that has been promoted and organised by the International Public Policy and Management research centre (IPPaM) of the Department of Social Sciences and Languages (Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences ) of Northumbria University. The seminar was held at the Northumbria University premises in Newcastle Upon Tyne on 17–18 October 2013 and benefited of the financial support of the University of Northumbria at Newcastle and of the Public Administration Committee of the Joint University Council of the Applied Social Sciences.

Not all of the participants did eventually prepare a book chapter for this book (whilst others who could not attend but who were involved throughout joined in contributing a chapter to this volume), but all of them greatly contributed to make the event highly significant scientifically, and highly enjoyable socially and humanly.

I want to thank all those who actively participated and contributed to it, namely: Simone Baglioni, Keith Baker, Michael Bauer, Rachael Chapman, Morten Egeberg, Howard Elcock, John Fenwick, Hussein Kassim, Martin Laffin, Andrew Lewis, Joyce Liddle, Andrew Massey, Duncan McTavish, Karen Miller, Arnout Miijs, Keith Shaw, Koen Verhoest, Anthony (Tony) Zito.

I also wish to thank all those who made it possible, a long list out of which I would like to mention at least: Mike Rowe, Liz Candlish, Charlotte Branch, Suzanne Martin, Heather Robson, Katrina Hughes, Seema Patel, Marta Pyrek.