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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This volume brings together selected papers given at an invitational conference on The Legitimacy of Philanthropic Foundations: U.S. and European Perspectives, which took place in Paris, May 26 through 29, 2004. Held at the French Ministry of Scientific Research, UNESCO and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the conference was graciously supported by the Russell Sage and Mattei Dogan foundations and co-organized by the Social Science Research Council. Mattei Dogan, directeur scientifique of the Fondation Mattei Dogan, Eric Wanner, president of the Russell Sage Foundation, and Craig Calhoun, president of the Social Science Research Council, were instrumental in making the conference a success, and we all owe deep gratitude to Kevin Moore, then program director at the Social Science Research Council, for carrying most of the organizational burdens on the American side, and Mattei Dogan for arranging the conference in Paris. ...

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