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Acknowledgments This book is the result of an international collaboration of a network of scholars at the University of Texas at Austin (Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies [LLILAS]), the Escola de Administração de Empresas (EAESP) of the Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo (FGVSP), and the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. In addition , Dr. Enrique Cabrero Mendoza, now director general of CIDE, and Dr. Tonatiuh Guillén López (now president of the Colegio de la Frontera Norte, COLEF) both collaborated in our initial meetings, and while their ongoing commitments took them away from full participation, we are grateful for their early input and support. Indeed, this work is the product of a research network initiated in 2000, and we wish to warmly acknowledge the support provided by our home institutions for this ambitious and long-term project. (The formation of the team and the research strategy are described more fully in chapter 1.) In particular, we would like to acknowledge the following programs for their financial support: at the University of Texas at Austin ’s LLILAS, we thank the Mexican Center and the Brazil Center; at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, we thank the Inter-American Policy Studies Program funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation , the International Program of the Policy Research Institute and the Mike Hogg Professorship of Urban Policy; and at the College of Liberal Arts and the Graduate School respectively, we acknowledge the support of the C. B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair (#2) in U.S.-Mexico Relations and the Ashbel Smith Professorship. At the FGVSP, we are indebted to the ix x Acknowledgments Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Nucleo de Pesquisa e Publicação, EAESP-FGVSP. The research groups have also benefited from the input of several very able graduate students, including Yael Cohen, Hector Robles Pereiro, and Pamela Rogers, and by the professional administrative support provided by Jayashree Vijalapuram, Gary Moberg, and Martha Harrison, all at the University of Texas, as well as Marco Antonio Teixeira and Roberta Clemente from the Center for Public Administration and Government, EAESP-FGVSP. We also wish to thank our numerous colleagues for their collegiality and for offering multiple commentary and critique over the years of the project, as well as two anonymous readers for their detailed and critical reading of the manuscript in its early stages. Naturally, the authors are responsible for any remaining errors and interpretation. Robert Wilson, Peter Ward, Peter Spink, and Victoria Rodríguez Austin and São Paulo ...

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