Designing Democratic Institutions: Nomos XLII

Preface

PREFACE This volume grew out of the annual meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, held in San Francisco, California, in January 1998. The society’s membership selected the topic “Designing Democratic Institutions” by ballot. Stephen Macedo, the incoming editor of NOMOS, worked with me to put together an excellent program. I note with appreciation the help I received from Kellianne Farnham and Stuart Chinn in putting together this, my final, volume of the annual. The NYU Press production team, consisting of Niko Pfund and Despina Papazoglou Gimbel, deserve our thanks for their usual, yet uncommon , efficiency in guiding the manuscript into print. Ian Shapiro ix ...