The
Good Society
A
PEGS Journal
Stephen L. Elkin, Editor
Jeremy Janow, Managing Editor
Gregory A. McBrayer, Senior Editor
Stephen A. Simon, Assistant Managing Editor
Breanna Forni, Assistant Managing Editor
Aaron Hanna, Assistant Managing Editor
Mark A. Graber, Contributing Editor
Habib Gharib, Assistant Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
Stephen L. Elkin, Chair
W.B. Allen, Gar Alperovitz, Kathryn M. Doherty, Jyl Josephson, Jeffrey Lustig, Claire Morgan, Roger Pilon,
Karol Soltan, Matthew Thomas
PEGS
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Chair: Stephen L. Elkin, University of Maryland
Karol Soltan, University of Maryland
Gar Alperovitz, National Center for Economic and
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Journal design by Caren Schlossberg
Published twice per year.
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University of Maryland
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About the Editor:
Stephen L. Elkin is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. He is a Principal of the Democracy Collaborative, an affiliate organization concerned with the theory and practice of democracy. He is also Chair of the Executive Committee of the Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society. Elkin received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, has also taught at Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania and has held visiting appointments at Australian National University and Beijing University. He is the author and editor of eight books, including City and Regime in the American Republic, which won an APSA award for the best book in urban theory, as well as Reconstructing the Commercial Republic. He has also been awarded the Theodore Lowi Award by the Policy Studies Association. Elkin is the recipient of 20 research grants, is the author of more than 50 scholarly papers, and has given lectures at more than 30 universities and research institutes. He has also been awarded the title of Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by the University of Maryland.