Political perspectives of opinion leaders in Uganda

This study was a cooperative venture of the Uganda Extra-Mural Depart ment, the East African Institute of Social Research and the International Center for Intergroup Relations of the École Pratique des Hautes Études and the International Social Science Council, Paris. Unesco provided financial support through a grant administered by the International Center for Inter group Relations.

The author is indebted to many people who helped in collecting and processing the material. The Extra-Mural Resident Tutors, Thalma Awori, Steve Brazier, Chango Machyo, and Wyn Williams along with Kristen Timothy helped administer the questionnaires. Additional assis tance was provided by the Political Science Research Program of the East African Institute of Social Research, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Center for the Comparative Study of Political Development, of the Uni versity of Chicago. Thanks are also due to the author's wife for preparing the codebook, and to the staff of the International Center for Intergroup Relations, for the difficult work of coding the material. Computer time for processing the data was made available from a grant administered through the University of Chicago, Division of the Social Sciences.

Portions of this report were previously made available to the Uganda extra-mural students who cooperated in our venture *.