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The study of comparative politics is currently invigorated by a world-wide perspective. There is now a lively concern with the politics of societies hitherto little regarded or left comfortably to specialists, and these societies often challenge familiar assumptions based on Western experience. Efforts to understand unfamiliar institutions or why formally similar political institutions perform differently in different societies inevitably forces attention outward from the political focus into wider reaches of each society.

In the Western World extensive soc & econ res was late in the developing process, but in underdeveloped areas extensive res may enable them to avoid wasteful error. How res can be applied in areas where trained talent is scarce & soc change swift remains to be seen. A sketch of the resources for res, lines of recent & current res, & the needs & problems in relating res to African development south of the Sahara & north of the Union is presented. The need for knowledge which would identify & characterize the diverse African people & knowledge of the culture & soc org has led to a concentration in ethnography. Res institutes have continued ethnographic work before going on to the practical problems. Beginnings have been made in studying problems rising out of recent development. An interest is growing in Ur areas. Potentialities of development are of interest to the area of educ'al planning. The need for org in carrying out the details of long-range studies, the need for studying interrelationships among changes, & the need to apply the findings show the necessity for established res institutes. The coming of self-gov may lessen the support for soc res since most of the support, (money & staffs) has come from outside. J. D. Twight.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction To The Transaction Edition -- 1 How Much And Who -- 2 The Inquisitors -- 3 The Natural History Of Foundations -- 4 What Hath Ford Wrought! -- 5 The Philanthropoids -- 6 Ancient History -- 7 The New Order -- Appendix: A Practical Bibliography -- Index

Like any respectable modern organization, the Ford Foundation has computer printouts showing in fat volumes of lists and tables what it has done. Some of these compilations trace the record from the beginning of the Foundation's national and international programs in 1950. An international interest was there from the start, because the study group that in the late forties advised the Foundation's trustees on what they ought to do successfully urged that they should devote major attention to world problems of peace and international understanding. The first specific attention to Africa south of the Sahara came in 1954 with a half-dozen grants and a series of what were then called "foreign study and research fellowships." Fellowships for Asian and Near Eastern studies had started earlier, in 1952, and some of them went to young scholars working on the Maghreb, Egypt, and places down as far as Sudan and Ethiopia.