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Acknowledgments
To carry forward a research project of such duration would have been ever more difficult without help and encouragement along the way. I am especially indebted for early assistance from Roger Benjamin and John Turner at the University of Minnesota; also to Harry Eckstein; journal editors, Patrick Doreian, Kevin Leicht, and Nathaniel Beck; and Rein Taagepera. I greatly appreciate that Lenard Cohen, Paul Warwick, Fuad Aleskerov, and Alexander Borodin have taken this research the next step, retesting it and adapting it to their own work.
Above all, I am grateful for the unfailing support of my parents, my wife Barbara—who was sold on the idea for the book the day we met—and our daughters, Liv and Bliss. All made their contributions to this book in inspiration, ideas, and editing. And to my grandparents, kiitoksia paljon!