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xxxviWilliam Rehgless interchangeably elsewhere, so that the same English wordsuffices for both. In other cases, the German is both rich and fluidenough to make a rigid adherence to one-to-one correlationsneither possible nor desirable. This is the case, for example, for thebroad range of German words having to do with power andauthority. In such cases, the demands of context and readability aredecisive. Where a particular distinction is important for Habermas'sargument, I rely on the context itself and choice of English termsto make this clear; if necessary, the different German terms areparenthetically noted. But where an exact distinction is less important,broad associations can suffice.Finally, for the sake of a more American idiom I use both " state"and "government" to translate Staat. Regierung, by contrast, tends tohave a narrower meaning, referring to the leadership or party inoffice (in Germany, Bundesregierung refers to the Chancellor andCabinet; in the United States, one typically refers to "the Administration,"for example, the Roosevelt Administration). However, Iuse "administration" to translate Verwaltung, which denotes thefunctional aspect or branch of the state as a bureaucraticallyorganized implementing power. Thus, to keep Regierung distinctfrom these other terms, I translate it with capitalized circumlocutions,such as "incumbentAdministration," "Government leaders,"and "Government in office."The reader should be aware that Habermas himsel£ has had aconsiderable hand in the translation, in some cases adapting andrewriting the text for the Anglo-American audience. As a result, theEnglish occasionally departs from the German original, for exampleby adding clarifying phrases, dropping cumbersome andunnecessary insertions, or simply by finding another way of wordingthings.In ordertoavoid sexistlanguage, I have (with Habermas'sassent)alternated the use o£ feminine and masculine pronouns fromchapter to chapter.This translation would not have been possible without the help ofa number o£people. O£these, some contributed considerable timeand effort. I want especially to thank Thomas McCarthy and JamesBohman for reading and commenting on multiple drafts;JiirgenHabermas for his extensive, and very helpful, suggestions on the