xii Acknowledgments I am deeply indebted to the many scholars who have commented on this work in part and in full. David Snow, my exceptional advisor and mentor of many years, has always counseled me with wisdom and patience; I have been beyond lucky to have him as a guide and dear friend. Yang Su’s candid insights, belief in my abilities, and coaching make me a better scholar; I continue to strive to “have more swagger” (but also not too much). David Meyer is a tireless guide who never neglects to ask how I am doing; thank you for helping to shepherd this book into reality. A debt is also owed to David J. Frank for being such a wonderfully wise and positive mentor over these many years. Many others lent their labor to making this book better, suffering through early drafts of the manuscript and its article-length components to help me get out of my own way. These individuals include the participants of my book workshop in 2018 – Sidney Tarrow, Roger Waldinger, Wendy Pearlman, and Clifford Bob – as well as Lauren Duquette-Rury, Charles Kurzman, Rory McVeigh, Josh Bloom, Suzanne Staggenborg, Phillip Ayoub, Andy Andrews, John Markoff, Jackie Smith, Alejandro Portes, Colin Beck, John McCarthy, Jack Delehanty, Gerasimos Tsourapas, Ali Chaudhary, Kim Ebert, Marcus Michaelsen, Maria Koinova, Marlies Glasius, Fiona Adamson, Bahar Baser, L. E. Picard, Mohammed Bamyeh, Judy Stepan-Norris, and Charles Ragin. The participants of the 2020 Culture and Politics Workshop at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the 2019 New York University Abu Dhabi conference on “Theorizing Social Change, Institutions, and Culture,” especially Zeynep Ozgen, Edward Kiser, Elisabeth Anderson, and Michelle O’Brien, all provided extremely helpful comments on different drafts. I am also deeply appreciative of the research assistance of Mark Robison and Eli Williams at the University of Notre Dame. The ever-cheerful John Ewing did an exceptional job helping me to edit the manuscript, and Trent Hancock produced a masterfully digitized index with grace and patience. Thank you both for your efforts on my behalf. I also thank the anonymous reviewers who provided feedback on an earlier version of the manuscript. Many friends, mentors, and colleagues – including Ali Kadivar, Aliza Luft, Ann Hironaka, Ann Mische, Atef Said, Brandon Gorman, David Cunningham, Diana Fu, Edelina Burciaga, Edward Lemon, Eric Schoon, Francesca Polletta, Gillian Kennedy, Hank Johnston, Irene Bloemraad, Jaime Kucinskas, Jean Beaman, Jeffrey Lane, Junia Howell, Katie Bolzendahl, Karida Brown, Kraig Beyerlein, Maria Abascal, Mark Paterson, Michael Goodhart, Nina Bandelj, Pamela Oliver, Roberta Lessor, Roger Rouse, Saipira Furstenberg, Sharon Quinsaat, Tarun Banerjee, William Carbonaro, and Waverly Duck – have been sources of invaluable advice and support. Melanie Hughes and her spouse, Britton, made Pittsburgh feel like home for us. Our years spent in California would have been deeply impoverished without the friendships of Beth Gardner, Amber Tierney, Savannah Steele, Zaib Tufail, Matt Rafalow, Mariam Ashtiani, Josh and Laina Malnight, Sahar Khan, Burrel Vann, Martín Jacinto, and many others. I will never forget the generosity of Hibba Abugideiri, Catherine https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009272148 Published online by Cambridge University Press