Robert E. Goodin is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. The Founding Editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy, Goodin has published many books, including most recently An Epistemic Theory of Democracy (2018 with K. Spiekermann) and Perpetuating Advantage: Mechanisms of Structural Injustice (2023). He has been awarded the 2022 Skytte Prize in Political Science and the 2009 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research for book Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom (2008 with J.M. Rice, A. Parpo and L. Eriksson). James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he is Professor of Communication and Political Science (by courtesy) and Director of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy. He is the author of a number of books, including Democracy When the People are Thinking (2018); When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation (2011), The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy (1995), and Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform (1991). A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, he has co-edited the Philosophy, Politics and Society Series since 1979.