Author/Editor Description: Janet Newman is Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham. She is co-author of ¿The Managerial State¿ (with J Clarke, SAGE 97), author of ¿Shaping Organisational Cultures in Local Government¿ (96), and co-editor of ¿Gender, Culture and Organisational Change (with C Itzin, eds, 95).