GENERAL EDITORS

DONALD I. RAY AND PETER SHINNIE

University of Calgary Press has a long history of publishing academic works on Africa. We are again taking up African themes in our new series Africa: Missing Voices, which illuminates issues and topics concerning Africa that have been ignored or are missing from current global debates. This series fills a gap in African scholarship by addressing authentic concerns that have been overlooked in political, social, and historical discussions about this continent. We invite authors to submit book proposals and manuscripts to us for consideration.

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTES OF ADMINISTRATION

The International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA) is an association of organizations and individuals whose activities and interests focus on public administration and management. Its main emphasis is on the development and use of human resources. From a concept first articulated in Vienna in 1962, the Association, which is a constituent organ of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS), was formally incorporated in Rome during the IIAS Congress of 1971. IASIA now has a worldwide membership of over 170 institutions in sixty-one countries as well as several international organizations. Members are grouped in seven geographical regions. The activities of its members include education and training of administrators and managers and related research, consulting, and publications. Its offices are at the headquarters of the IIAS in Brussels, Belgium.

The worldwide membership of IASIA provides individuals/organizations from various parts of the world having the same concerns with the opportunity to consider and advance their interests from a global perspective. This capacity at once makes mutual support and assistance more possible and helps serve the needs arising from the increasingly international nature of the environment in which governments and their public services are called upon to operate. It also facilitates initiatives that may enhance the institutional and operational effectiveness of member organizations and of the public sector internationally.

IASIA is a not-for-profit association supported by membership fees, income from services, the voluntary services of its members, and contributions from funding organizations.

IASIA Secretariat

Rue Defacqz 1, Bte 11

B-1000 Brussels, Belgium

Tel.: 32/2-536.08.89 Fax: 32/2-537.97.02

E-mail: iasia@iiasiisa.be, www.iiasiisa.be