From Elections to Democracy is part of the Collegium Budapest Project on Honesty and Trust: Theory and Experience in the Light of Post-Socialist Transformation. Research was conducted at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford, California; Collegium Budapest; and Yale University. I am grateful to all three institutions and to their funding sources for support. In particular, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation supported my research in two ways. First, through a grant to Collegium Budapest for the Project on Honesty and Trust co-organized by János Kornai and myself between 2000 and 2003; second, through a grant to CASBS.

I am very grateful to Madiha Afzal, Katalin Füzér, Anna Horolets, Csilla Kalocsai, Maciej Kisilowski, Lisa Marshall, Nawreen Sattar, and Aleksandra Sznajder for excellent research help; to Judit Balassa for preparing the index, to Gene Coakley of the Yale Law Library for help in locating sources; and to Cathy Orcutt for assistance in preparing the final manuscript. I was especially dependent on the skill, integrity, and good will of Kati, Anna, Csilla, Maciej, and Aleksandra, native speakers of Polish or Hungarian, who helped me with interviews and secondary sources. I am also grateful to Bruce Ackerman, Cary Coglianese, János Kornai, Bo Rothstein, András Sajó, and Kim Lane Scheppele for helpful conversations on the book's topic and for comments on the draft manuscript.