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xi Acknowledgments THIS RESEARCH WOULD not have been possible without the generous support of The Russell Sage Foundation and a consortium of private foundations including The Ford Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and The Carnegie Corporation of New York. Sunshine Hillygus also received financial support from the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University. The Russell Sage Foundation provided further support for this project with a visiting scholar position for Ken Prewitt while this book was in preparation. We would like to thank multiple cohorts of research assistants at the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society for their hard work and effort on this project, especially Markus Prior, Sunny Niu, Jennifer Lawless, Shawn Treier and Hahrie Han. We are also deeply indebted to Emily Borom, SIQSS senior administrator, for her efforts and assistance. Our many thanks to the publications staff of the Russell Sage Foundation, who have helped make for an exceptionally smooth publication process. We are especially grateful to Suzanne Nichols for her continuous patience, enthusiasm, and support. The final manuscript was much improved by the red pen of copyeditor, Cindy Buck, and the constructive comments of the anonymous reviewers. Finally, a special acknowledgment goes to Jane Junn for her many contributions to this project. ...

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