The authors thank Susan A. Burke for her comments on the first two drafts of this manuscript.

The central themes of this article are based on the extensive experience of the authors in editing multiauthor books over a ten-year period. However, attendance at the 1992 APSA roundtable discussion on Managing a Multi-Author Research Project in Comparative Politics was useful in refining several of the points. We wish to acknowledge the contributions of that roundtable's members: Chair, Kent Weaver, Brookings Institution; Joel D. Aberbach, UCLA; Keith Banting, Queen's University; Nancy Davidson, Brookings Institution; T. J. Pempel, University of Colorado; and Sidney Verba, Harvard.