1. Splintered Sovereignty and the De-Monopolization of Legitimate Violence in Colonial State Formation and Expansion • Joseph R Weinger, University of California, Los Angeles.

2. Caste and Census in Precolonial and Colonial India • Rebecca Jean Emigh, UCLA; Patricia Ahmed, South Dakota State University; Dylan Riley, University of California at Berkeley.

3. The Origins of State Authority: Theory and Evidence from Chile • maximiliano vejares, Johns Hopkins University.

4. The Violent Road to Proportional Representation: Evidence from Late-Nineteenth Century Buenos Aires (1854-1873) • Sebastian Cortesi, Johns Hopkins University.