1. The Nation’s Back Yard: How Citizen Activists Nationalized Local Politics in the Fight to Save Green Springs • Brian Balogh, University of Virginia.

2. Seeing the State from Within: The Work of Legitimacy in Cash Transfer Programs • Luciana de Souza Leao, University of Michigan.

3. State Ignorance as White Ignorance • Sarah Quinn, University of Washington, Seattle; Damon Mayrl, Colby College.

4. Visibility and the Politics of Protective Regulation: the Case of the CFPB • Mallory SoRelle, Duke University.