We thank the National Science Foundation programs in political science; methods, models and measurement; and geography for research support (grant SBR-9321212 to Gary King), and an unrestricted donation of electoral data to the Harvard-MIT Data Center from a now-defunct, but then officially nonpartisan foundation (called ``Fairness for the 90s''). These electoral data included a donation of the largest set of U.S. precinct-level electoral data ever assembled in one place (originally collected to aid minorities during redistricting). We thank Bill Krump for arranging the donation and for physically driving a large moving van to Cambridge with all the materials. King thanks Nuffield College at Oxford University for a visiting fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for a fellowship.
The ROAD Team thanks the wizards at the Harvard-MIT data center, including William Wei, Bill Mahoney, and Yi Wang. Special thanks to David Cobb and Arlene Olivero at the Harvard Map Collection for much advice and assistance. Thanks also to the Littauer Library at Harvard University for providing us caverns of valuable space to store the massive materials we received.
We thank Clark Bensen of POLIDATA for providing Census geographical codes for the voting data files for Ohio and Illinois and for much valuable advice throughout the project. Thanks also to Kenneth McCue and Wendy Tam who, through the Institute of Governmental Studies at Berkeley, put together much of our data from California. Lee Sigelman was incredibly generous in providing manpower in D.C. for some of our initial data acquisitions. MaconUSA provided access to their commercial geographic data and allowed us to distribute what we created from them without charge. Darrell Donakowski, from the ICPSR, was very helpful at the final stages in reconciling various logical inconsistencies.
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