This volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of contributors who use survey data analysis, spatial analysis, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic and archival research to explore the fundamental transformation of the relationship between states and citizens.

Melani Cammett is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is the author of Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon, also from Cornell and Globalization and Business Politics in Arab North Africa. Lauren M. MacLean is Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana University and the author of Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa.