Gregory S. Mahler is Academic Dean Emeritus and Research Professor of Politics at Earlham College. He is the author or editor of many books, including Foreign Perceptions of the United States Under Donald Trump and Comparative Politics: Exploring Concepts and Institutions Across Nations.

Essays that describe the efforts of several groups in a variety of political settings to achieve greater control over the policies that affect them, the strategies they employ to do so, and their status today.