r. m. bates is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge and a Frank Knox Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. He was also a 2018 Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He studies nineteenth-century American political economy. rmb89@cam.ac.uk

nicholas bauroth is Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at North Dakota State University. His research includes American government and public policy. He is also the director of the Upper Midwest Center on Public Policy, a research and educational center dedicated to the study of political and governmental processes primarily in North Dakota and Minnesota. nicholas.bauroth@ndsu.edu

david f. ericson is an instructor in political science at Cleveland State University. Among his recent publications are Slavery in the American Republic: Developing the Federal Government, 1791–1861 (2011), “Liberalism and American Political Development,” in Oxford Handbook of American Political Development (2016), “The American Colonization Society’s Not So Private Colonization Project,” in Reconsiderations and Redirections in the Study of African Colonization (2017), and “The United States Military, Slavery, and State-Building in the Early Republic,” in Studies in American Political Development (2017). d.ericson@csuohio.edu

felipe monestier has a Ph.D in Political Science from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of the Republic of Uruguay. He has published articles on topics in his specialty of “Democratization” and “Latin American Politics and Society,” among others. felipe.monestier@gmail.com

cecilia rossel is a Sociologist and has a Ph.D in Government and Public Administration from the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset—Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research focuses on the citizen–public administration relationship (state and third-sector relationships, and links between bureaucracies and citizens), the political economy of social policy, and welfare regimes and inequality in Latin America). cecilia.rossel@ucu.edu.uy; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2452-4522