Margaret Levi is Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. Among her books are Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (1997), Of Rule and Revenue (1988) and the co-authored Analytic Narratives (1997) and Cooperation without Trust? (2005). She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (2002-3) and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar (2006-7). She is former President of the American Political Science Association (2004-5). She is the general editor of Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics and of the Annual Review of Political Science.