ANDRÉ BÄCHTIGER Senior Assistant, Institute of Political Science, University of Bern, SwitzerlandFAY LOMAX COOK Director of the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, USAMICHAEL X. DELLI CARPINI Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USACHRISTOPHER F. KARPOWITZ Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University, USAJOSHUA COHEN Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USAJOHN DRYZEK Head of the Social and Political Theory Program, Australian National University, AustraliaARCHON FUNG Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, USALAWRENCE R. JACOBS Land Grant-McKnight Professor, University of Minnesota and Adjunct Professor in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, USACHRISTIAN LIST Reader in Political Science, London School of Economics, UKLORRAINE M. MCDONNELL Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, USAJANE MANSBRIDGE Adams Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USATALI MENDELBERG Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University, USAMARKUS SPÖRNDLI Communications Officer, Swiss Agency for Economic Development Cooperation, SwitzerlandMARCO R. STEENBERGEN Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA JÜRG STEINER Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina atChapel Hill, USA and the University of Bern, SwitzerlandKATHERINE CRAMER WALSH Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAMARK E. WARREN Professor of Government, Georgetown University, USAM. STEPHEN WEATHERFORD Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA