Robert E. Goodin is Professor of Philosophy, specializing in social and political theory, at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Hans-Dieter Klingemann is Professor of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and Director of the Research Unit for Institutions and Social Change at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin.

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