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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

It is rather surprising to recall how many people have helped in many
different ways with the completion of this monograph, based on my
interdisciplinary doctoral study at the University of Oxford, incorporating
elements of economic, political and communication research. This is my
opportunity to express my gratitude, and I am delighted to take it.

For inspiring discussions, I would like to thank Dieter Roth (Elections
Research Group Mannheim) and Frank Brettschneider (University of
Augsburg), to whom I owe the very initiative to undertake this research.
While Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (IfD Allensbach) provided me with
comprehensive data regarding public opinion, I am most indebted to
Hartmut J. O. Pogge von Strandmann (University College) for the
conceptual design, constructive criticism and continual support.

Archival research is possible only if access both to archives as well as to
particular sources are granted: it is here that I record my gratitude to
Andreas Müller-Armack and Christine Blumenberg-Lampe. Spending
weeks in the archives, often partnerships and even friendships develop.
For most fruitful and productive co-operation, I should like to thank Nils
Goldschmidt (WEI), Hans-Jürgen Klegraf (ADCP), Christoph Stamm
(AdsD), Renate Höpfinger (ACSP), Andreas Schirmer (ALES), Brigitte
Nelles (DBt PA), Hans-Joachim Bödler (BA), Karl-Ulrich Gelberg
(BayHstA), Elisabeth Skrip (BPA), and Konrad Schneider (IStGF).

Carrying out archival research in Germany was accompanied by seminars
at the University of Bonn and the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études
Internationales (HEI) in Geneva, where I held an EUROPAEUM research
fellowship in 2004/2005. There, the discussions with Günther Schulz and
Pierre du Bois (g) proved to be enormously enriching.