Anas Malik, Professor of Political Science at Xavier University in Cincinnati, is the author of Polycentricity, Islam, and Development (Lexington, 2018) and Political Survival in Pakistan: Beyond Ideology (Routledge, 2011). His research interests are in governance in Islamic and multicultural contexts, and the political economy of institutions. Malik has been affiliated with the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University (Bloomington).