The editor, John Dreijmanis, is a retired political scientist with extensive teaching, research and administrative experience at a number of Canadian, American, British, South African, Polish, German and Chinese universities. He most recently taught political science at Universität Bremen.
Dreijmanis has many publications on the socio-economic and political transformations in Central and Eastern Europe and South Africa and on higher education policy and the labor market for educated people, including academics. His books include The Role of the South African Government in Tertiary Education (Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1988) and Government Coalitions in Western Democracies (co-ed. and co-author) (New York and London: Longman, 1982). He has also published in Parliamentary Affairs, Government and Opposition, Il Politico, Higher Education Review and in other journals.
