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The authors are grateful to the many people at CQ Press who have worked with us on this project. Monica Eckman lured us in (again) and saw us through the early stages of this project. We also thank those on the editorial and marketing side, on the production side, and on the digital side who helped us bring it to completion. Special thanks to Sarah Calabi for the countless hours she spent helping us revise the text, and to Erin Livingston for her expert copyediting. We are also grateful to the staff members at our respective universities who helped with the original edition. Above all, we are grateful to our families, who tolerated our long and erratic periods of work on this project. American Democracy in Context is a project we believe in that has lured even retirees back into the harness. We are proud of the results—written through sickness and health—and grateful to those who prodded us to make it better, even though we sometimes resisted. Most of all, we are grateful to our students, whose curiosity was and remains contagious.

The authors would also like to thank the instructors who have contributed their valuable feedback through reviews of this text:

 Shannon Lynn Bridgmon, Northeastern State University

 Amanda Friesen, Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

 Brian M. Harward, Allegheny College

 James Edward Monogan III, University of Georgia

 Patrick Moore, Richland College

 Noel A.D. Thompson, Tuskegee University

 Laura Wood, Tarrant County College

John Maltese, Joe Pika, and Phil Shively