Edward C. Page, BA (CNAA), MSc, PhD (Strathclyde), FBA, was at the University of Hull prior to joinging the LSE. Recent books include Changing Government Relations in Europe (co-editor with M Goldsmith) Routledge, 2010; From the Active to the Enabling State (co-editor with the late Vincent Wright) Palgrave, 2006; Policy Bureaucracy: Government With a Cast of Thousands (with the late Bill Jenkins) Oxford University Press, 2005; Governing by Numbers: Delegated Legislation and Everyday Policy Making, Hart Publishing, 2001. He has written many articles on comparative public policy and administration and British government. He has been Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science since 2001.