Acknowledgements

Acknowledgment

At Yale University, our grateful thanks are due to the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; the Center for Comparative Research, and the Office of the Provost, for financial and organizational support. We also thank Pam Colesworthy, Jerri Cummings, and Taly Noam for their work on behalf of the originating conference. At the University of Texas-Austin, we wish to recognize the support of the Office of the Dean, College of Liberal Arts, and the help rendered by Michael Brenner, Jennifer Martinez, and E. J. Sanders. Finally, we greatly appreciate all that Julian Go, editor of Political Power and Social Theory, and the Emerald staff have done to make this volume possible.