Leslie A. Pal is Professor of Public Policy and Administration and Director of the School of Policy and Administration at Carleton University. He is the author, co-author or editor of over twenty books, the most recent being the third edition of Beyond Policy Analysis: Public Issue Management in Turbulent Times (Thomson Nelson, 2005) and The Government Taketh Away: The Politics of Pain in the United States and Canada (co-edited with R. Kent Weaver, Georgetown University Press, 2003). Les has also published over fifty articles and book chapters in a wide variety of areas, including Canadian politics, public policy and administration, information technology, European integration, and international human rights. He taught for two years at the University of Waterloo and for ten years at the University of Calgary before taking up his current position at Carleton University in 1992. He earned a PhD and MA from Queen’s University, Canada.