Ernesto Laclau is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government, University of Essex, and in the Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York Buffalo. He is the author, among other works, of "Hegemony and Socialist Strategy" (co-authored with Chantal Mouffe) and "New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time".
Chantal Mouffe is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. Her previous books include The Return of the Political; Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Ernesto Laclau); The Dimensions of Radical Democracy; and The Challenge of Carl Schmitt, all from Verso.