António Tavares holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Florida State University. He is associate professor of the School of Economics and Management and member of the Research Center in Political Science at the University of Minho, Portugal. He is also adjunct associate professor at the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) in Guimarães, Portugal. He is co-editor of the Urban Affairs Review, the journal affiliated with the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. His research interests comprise topics in the fields of local government and urban politics, including territorial reforms, regional governance, service delivery, and political and civic engagement. His research has been published in a wide range of journals in political science, public administration and urban affairs, including Government Information Quarterly, Journal of Urban Affairs, Local Government Studies, Policy Studies Journal, International Review of Administrative Sciences, and Public Management Review.