Personal thanks also go to Erling Olsen, former minister of housing and
transportation in Denmark; Ioannis Sinanoglou, executive director of the Council
for European Studies; Richard Dwyer, dean of Labor Studies, Empire State
College, State University of New York; Berndt Öhman, at the University of
Örebro in Sweden; Martin Peterson, University of Göteborg; and Frank
Wilson,
Purdue University. They provided indispensable encouragement and assistance
throughout the life of the project. For their editorial and technical assistance
we are
also grateful to Norma Antillon, Robert Francis, David Leblang, Suzan McIntire,
David Schaefer, and John Williams. A final word of acknowledgment goes to the
anonymous reader who so carefully read a first draft of the manuscript and
responded with a number of extremely helpful suggestions for revision.

The editors assume responsibility for the translation of the contributions
by Rudolf Meidner and Franz Steinkühler as well as any inadverent errors
that may
remain in the text.

M. Donald Hancock ( Vanderbilt University)

John Logue ( Kent State University)

Bernt Schiller ( Roskilde University)

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