Proposing adjustments in editorial policy is only one of the editor's primary responsibilities. A second is to coordinate the preparation of informed and constructive reviews through the peer review process. (Suggested general guidelines for reviewers are reproduced in Table 1.) A third responsibility is to select manuscripts for publication in conjunction with the associate editor, the book review editor, and the International Advisory Board. The editor is and should be constrained by the choices of many others. In particular, the proposals for editorial policy amount to little more than a declaration of openness to additional kinds of manuscripts. Whether the proposals make any difference, for better or for worse, depends mostly on the manuscripts submitted by authors, the standards actually applied by reviewers, and, in the long run, the responses of readers and subscribers. Whatever their choices, I look forward to working with and for the international policy sciences community as editor of the journal over the next four years.