Acknowledgment

 

 

Acknowledgment

 

 

• The manuscript of this book is vast. Therefore, it may be difficult for readers to read it all at once, and they may find it challenging to remember all the parts they have read before. To help readers in this regard, some important contents are intentionally iterated. If readers who remember the contents before and after find such parts, they may feel that the content is somewhat redundant.

 

• The ideas in this book will be new to political researchers. Therefore, important propositions are separated and emphasized to facilitate intuitive understanding, and diagrams and tables are used to provide a quick overview of the relationships among complex contents.

 

• Important propositions, equations, figures, and tables are separately included at the end of the book as an appendix. Even by examining these materials alone, the general structure of the theory can be roughly understood.

 

• When processing footnotes, I thought as follows. It is frustrating when you unfold a page and see "previous book" written there, and you cannot easily find the book even after searching the previous several pages. However, it is also impossible to always read the book in order while checking the footnotes. I processed the footnotes to follow the existing conventions as much as possible, but also to avoid such frustrations. That is, I minimized the use of "previous book" and "above text," and sufficiently iterated the detailed citation for the same literature on each page. If you see such contents as "previous book" or "above text" in the footnotes of this book, it means that the book or text can be checked on the same page or the immediately preceding page.