Neovi M. Karakatsanis is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University South Bend, USA. Her work has appeared in South European Society and Politics, Armed Forces and Society, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Democratization, and Mediterranean Quarterly, and she is the author of The Politics of Elite Transformation: The Consolidation of Greek Democracy in Theoretical Perspective.  She is currently coeditor (with Jonathan Swarts) of Political and Military Sociology:  An Annual Review. Jonathan Swarts is Professor of Political Science at Purdue University Northwest, USA.  He has published in such journals as the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Quarterly, and Political Studies and is the author of Constructing Neoliberalism: The Transformation of Economic Ideas in Anglo-American Democracies.  He is currently coeditor (with Neovi M. Karakatsanis) of Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review.