Acknowledgments

Our work on this volume has been supported by the ERC (grant no. 741538) as well as by Vanderbilt University and the University of Geneva. The idea was hatched while Noam was a visiting researcher at Jonas’ ERC-funded Unequal Democracies program, at the University of Geneva, in the Spring of 2020. We intended to bring potential contributors together for a conference, but the pandemic forced us instead to opt for an online seminar, which ran every other week from January to June 2021. Despite our initial reservations about the format, the seminar was consistently well attended and the discussion lively and stimulating, convincing us to move forward with plans for a volume.

We are most grateful to the chapter authors for the time and effort they put into this project. We learned a great deal from their contributions and from our discussions with them. We are also grateful for their patience when we, as editors, have missed deadlines that we set for them and for ourselves. We also thank Brian Burgoon and two anonymous reviewers for providing detailed comments and suggestions, and Guilherme Fasolin and Martín Gou for editorial assistance. Last but not least, we thank the editors of the Anxieties of Democracy series – John Ferejohn, Ira Katznelson, and Deborah Yashar – and the staff at Cambridge University Press – Rachel Blaifeder and Jadyn Fauconier-Herry in particular – for their encouragement and support.