mats hallenberg is Professor of History at Stockholm University. He specializes in early modern history and has published several works on state formation and the relations between rulers and subjects. He has also studied political conflicts over the organization of public services from the seventeenth century up to modern times. Currently, he leads a research project investigating regime shifts in early modern Sweden and their impact on state capacity and representative government.

mats.hallenberg@historia.su.se.

michael lewis is Professor of Sociology at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. His publications include The Coming of Southern Prohibition: The Dispensary System and the Battle over Liquor in South Carolina, 1907–1915. His current work examines the adoption of Gothenburg liquor-control schemes in the United States.

mlewis@cnu.edu.

magnus linnarsson is Associate Professor of History at Stockholm University. He specializes in political history and has recently worked on political conflicts about the organization of public services in Sweden between 1600 and 2000. He has also published works on state formation, institutions, and organizations in the early modern period. At the moment, he is working on regime shifts in early modern Sweden, focusing on the late 1700s.

magnus.linnarsson@historia.su.se.

teresa spezio is the author of Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). She studies the historical relationship between humans and industrial pollution, focusing on ideas and realities of damage and remediation.

tsspezio@ucdavis.edu.

andrÉs spognardi holds a PhD in Political Science from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy). Currently he is a research fellow at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and a member of the Research Group on Solidarity Economy (ECOSOL‐CES).

aspognardi@ces.uc.pt.