...No effort was made to force authors to conform to a specific style. Acknowledgments This book would not have been possible without the generous support of the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to whom we extend our sincere appreciation. But we owe most particular...

...Griffin on the Chinese Household Income Project, which produced the data for this book. The project would not have been possible without the generous support of the Ford Foundation. The source for all tables in this book is the author's calculations based on the 1988 Household Sample...

...helpful comments on earlier drafts. All mistakes, of course, are my responsibility. This project would not have been possible without the generous support of the Ford Foundation. And I would never even have gone to Kosovo without the encouragement and backing of my wife, Katherine...

...2003 would have quickly dated any study of Iraqi elites. The Elite Change project and this book would not have been possible without the generous support of the Ford Foundation and the Thyssen Foundation, both of which funded the project from 2001 through 2003, and the United...