We did not scale it down to the least common denominator. We do talk more about
some countries partly because there is a bigger literature about those countries, and some
of the literature is really interesting. We were willing to make it uneven. If we found the
literature that we thought illuminated some of the conceptual issues we would really discuss
that. There was pretty extensive discussion of Spain, for example, and that partly has to do
with linguistic reasons: We could really do more work there than in some other countries.
We interviewed Spanish journalists and read a lot of literature, and so we went pretty far
with that example. In other cases we had a lot of trouble finding material in English,
particularly some of the smaller countries. We were just hoping that we would get enough
good quality literature that we could make a competent discussion of it and raise the issues
we wanted to.