Country Consultant Albania Charles Moskos Australia Don Aitkin Austria Joseph Houska Bulgaria William Welsh and Carl Beck Burma Allan Goodman Cambodia Allan Goodman Canada R. Barry Farrell and Mildred Schwartz Central African Republic Victor Levine Chad Victor Levine Congo-Brazzaville Victor Levine Cuba George Blanksten Dahomey George Martens Denmark Kenneth Miller Dominican Republic George Blanksten Ecuador George Blanksten El Salvador Ronald H. McDonald France Kay Lawson Germany, East Arthur Hanhardt Germany, West Derek Urwin Ghana Lynn Fischer Greece Keith Legg Guatemala Joel Verner Guinea Kay Lawson Hungary William Welsh and Carl Beck Iceland Richard Tomasson India Richard Park Indonesia Allan Goodman

Country Consultant Iran Marvin Zonis Ireland Paul Sacks Kenya Newell Stultz Lebanon Michael Hudson Luxembourg Michael Delvaux Malaya Cynthia Enloe Netherlands Arend Lijphart and I. Lipschits New Zealand Nigel Roberts Nicaragua Ronald H. McDonald North Korea Robert Scalapino and Young Kih1 Paraguay Byron Nichols Peru Edward Epstein Portugal Ronald Chilcote Rhodesia & Nyasaland James Scarritt Sudan Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Sweden Joe Board Togo George Martens Tunisia Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Turkey Frank Tachau and Ergun Ozbudun Uganda Kathleen Lockard Union of Soviet Socialist Republics R. Barry Farrell and Valerie Bunce United States William Crotty Upper Volta George Martens Uruguay George Blanksten and Frank Safford

of the variable in the manual to see what I have in mind. Where possible, enter your comments and disagreements directly on the computer printout. And please do circle keypunching errors when you find them.

5. Bibliographic Essay.¹ There is probably little that you can add to the bibliographic essay, for it is very specialized for the purpose of the project. But corrections are always in order, as are suggestions for revisions.

 

6. Bibliographic Listing.¹ Recall that almost all of our bibliographic searches stopped by 1969, so we make no claim for up-to-date coverage and cannot afford to accomplish this now for all 53 countries. Nevertheless, I would appreciate any especially pertinent recent citations that you might give me. But for the purposes of this review, I ask only that you examine the citations for errors, especially in authors' names.

 

I truly hope that we have done our work so well that reviewing this material will take a minimum of your time. In some of our countries, however, I am prepared to learn that this is not the case, for I have my own suspicions as to the adequacy of the research that underlies the coding. If it does turn out that you have drawn a set of material that requires more than just polishing, I will be especially grateful for your help in improving the quality of the data before publication.

This review process proved to be one of the most valuable phases of the project. In a sheer quantitative sense, most of our codes and comments passed the scrutiny of our judges, adding to our confidence in the overall quality of the information collected even more than our high reliability coefficients. But, in numerous instances, our consultants corrected errors of fact and interpretation and supplied us with additional information to extend and improve our coding. For a variety of reasons, we did not always follow the advice of our reviewers, and they may have occasionally withheld criticism

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1. For reasons of economy, the bibliographic essays and the bibliographic listings are not published in this volume.

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