Mark Bevir is a professor in the Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is the author of The Logic of the History of Ideas (1999) and New Labour: A Critique (2005) and coauthor, with R. A. W. Rhodes, of Interpreting British Governance (2003) and Governance Stories (2006). He is also the editor of Public Governance (2007, 4 vols.); coeditor, with Robert Adcock and Shannon Stimson, of Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880 (in press); and coeditor, with Frank Trentmann, of Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America (2002) and Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World (2004).