In volume 38:1, authors explore a range of questions about whether the rule making, judging, and enforcement powers of unelected officials are consistent with the purposes of an elected democracy. Does the administrative state run counter to the ideas of deliberative democracy and consent of the governed? Are we supposing that governance should be the province of experts rather than representatives? What kind of state is the administrative state? What does it imply beyond, say, the existence of a government-administered civil service? This volume of Social Philosophy and Policy features papers by Samuel Bagg, Anne Barnhill, David Bernstein, Samuel DeCanio, Eric MacGilvray, Tiffany Miller, Paul Moreno, Sandra Peart, Ronald Pestritto, Joseph Postrell, Emily Skarbek, and Vlad Tarko.