Steven Livingston is Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University and the Founding Director of the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics (IDDP). He also holds an appointment in the Elliott School of International Affairs and is a senior fellow in the Illiberal Studies Program in the Elliott School. Livingston also founded the Public Diplomacy Institute (PDI) at GW in 2000 and served as the chairman of the Board of Directors until 2008. PDI is now the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication.Michael Miller is Managing Director of the Moynihan Center at The City College of New York. A political scientist specializing in media, technology, and authoritarianism, his research examines how regimes adapt censorship, surveillance, and propaganda to digital environments. Before joining CCNY, he directed the Media & Democracy and Just Tech programs at the Social Science Research Council and served as founding editor of the Just Tech Platform. He holds a PhD in political science from the CUNY Graduate Center.

As timely and trenchant as it is informed and innovative, Livingston and Miller's brilliant, troubling volume brings together the nation's leading experts to understand how conservative political backlash and the rise of new digital "surrogate" organizations are rocking the foundations of affluent democracies, especially the United States'. A revelatory must-read tounderstand the political struggles happening today-and what will shape their profound consequences.

• Foreword by Daniel ZiblattPreface: Steven Livingston and Michael MillerChapter 1: W. Lance Bennett and Steven LivingstonChapter 2: Kate StarbirdChapter 3: Josephine Lukito, Yunkang Yang, Sang Jung KimChapter 4: Daniel Kreiss and Aaron SugarmanChapter 5: Curd Knüpfer and Ulrike KlingerChapter 6: Julia R. DeCook and Brett J. FujiokaChapter 7: Adam HiltonChapter 8: Christopher Sebastian Parker and Rachel M. BlumChapter 9: Steven FeldsteinChapter 10: Babak Bahador and Dan KerchnerChapter 11: Andrew Ifedapo ThompsonChapter 12: Dave Karpf

Steven Livingston is Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University and the Founding Director of the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics (IDDP). He also holds an appointment in the Elliott School of International Affairs and is a senior fellow in the Illiberal Studies Program in the Elliott School. Livingston also founded the Public Diplomacy Institute (PDI) at GW in 2000 and served as the chairman of the Board of Directors until 2008. PDI is now the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication.Michael Miller is Managing Director of the Moynihan Center at The City College of New York. A political scientist specializing in media, technology, and authoritarianism, his research examines how regimes adapt censorship, surveillance, and propaganda to digital environments. Before joining CCNY, he directed the Media & Democracy and Just Tech programs at the Social Science Research Council and served as founding editor of the Just Tech Platform. He holds a PhD in political science from the CUNY Graduate Center.

As timely and trenchant as it is informed and innovative, Livingston and Miller's brilliant, troubling volume brings together the nation's leading experts to understand how conservative political backlash and the rise of new digital "surrogate" organizations are rocking the foundations of affluent democracies, especially the United States'. A revelatory must-read tounderstand the political struggles happening today-and what will shape their profound consequences.

• Foreword by Daniel ZiblattPreface: Steven Livingston and Michael MillerChapter 1: W. Lance Bennett and Steven LivingstonChapter 2: Kate StarbirdChapter 3: Josephine Lukito, Yunkang Yang, Sang Jung KimChapter 4: Daniel Kreiss and Aaron SugarmanChapter 5: Curd Knüpfer and Ulrike KlingerChapter 6: Julia R. DeCook and Brett J. FujiokaChapter 7: Adam HiltonChapter 8: Christopher Sebastian Parker and Rachel M. BlumChapter 9: Steven FeldsteinChapter 10: Babak Bahador and Dan KerchnerChapter 11: Andrew Ifedapo ThompsonChapter 12: Dave Karpf