Challenges of Governance

Ronald L. Holzhacker is Professor of Comparative Multilevel Governance and Regional Structure in the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, Department of Planning and the Environment, and the Faculty of Arts, Department of International Relations and International Organization at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is broadly interested in questions of governance, human rights, and the interaction between civil society and institutions in political systems. He has published in journals such as Law & Policy , Comparative European Politics , Journal of European Integration , European Union Politics , Nations and Nationalism , Party Politics , Journal of Legislative Studies , European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance, Contemporary Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration . He is co-editor of numerous books over the past decade, most recently Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia and ASEAN: National and Regional Approaches, eds. R. Holzhacker and Dafri Agus Salim (Leiden, Boston, Singapore: Brill 2019) and Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia, eds. R. Holzhacker, R. Wittek, and J. Woltjer (New York: Springer 2016).

Wendy Guan Zhen Tan is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Business, Department of Civil Engineering, at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and senior researcher at the Land Use Planning Group at Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands. She is Associate Director of SEA ASEAN, the Groningen Research Centre for Southeast Asia and ASEAN at the University of Groningen. Her research expertise and interest focus on the implementation of land use and transportation integration, mobility issues and institutional perspective in planning processes in Europe, America and Southeast Asia.