¹University of Chicago

^*This reply is a revised and expanded version of my presentation at the roundtable on Bound by Recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association in Boston, November 13, 2004. I am grateful to Joan Cocks, Uday Mehta, Falguni Sheth, and Antonio Vázquez-Arroyo for their comments there; to Antonio again for proposing and organizing the roundtable; and to Nick Xenos for soliciting the results for publication in Polity.