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* We are grateful to the Starr Foundation, through the Institutional Research and Exchanges
Board of the United States Department of State for a grant to us, together with in conjunction
with Paul Sum of the University of North Dakota and Mihai Pisica and Cosmin Marian of Babes-
Bolyai University under the IREX Caspian and Black Sea Collaborative Program (2001). We are
also grateful to Meril James, Secretary-General of Gallup International, for sharing the Gallup
Millennium surveys with us. Some of the data come from the InterUniversity Consortium for
Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Neither Gallup International nor the ICPSR is
responsible for any of the conclusions we reach. Uslaner is also grateful to the Russell Sage
Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation for a grant under the Russell Sage program on The
Social Dimensions of Inequality (see
http://www.russellsage.org/programs/proj_reviews/social-
inequality.htm
) and to the General Research Board of the Graduate School of the University of
Maryland—College Park. Badescu’s research for this chapter was supported in part through the
Blue Bird Project, which is financed by a consortium of international donors and administered by
the Central European University. Specifically, contributions from the international donor, Bank
of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, were used to fund his work.
We are particularly grateful for the helpful comments of Mark Lichbach,
Marc Morje Howard, Janos Kornai, Susan Rose-Ackerman, Bo Rothstein, and the participants in
the Honesty and Trust seminar, especially Bruce Ackerman.
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