Liliane Lopez-Rabatel is an associate researcher at the Research Institute on Ancient Architecture (IRAA, Lyon, CNRS – AMU). She has written a PhD thesis on sortition in Ancient Greece and has co-edited Voter en Grèce, à Rome et en Gaule: pratiques, lieux et finalités (Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 2019). Yves Sintomer is professor of political science and researcher at the Paris Center for Sociological and Political Research (CRESPPA, CNRS/Paris 8 University), and Associate Member, Nuffield College, Oxford University. He has been deputy-director of the Marc Bloch Center Berlin, and senior member, French University Institute. His most recent books include Participatory Budgeting in Europe; Democracy and Public Governance (with C. Herzberg and A. Röcke; London: Routledge, 2016), and Between Radical and Deliberative Democracy: Random Selection in Politics from Athens to the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2020 (forthcoming)).