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An Altimeter for Mr. Escher's Stairway: A Comment on William H. Riker's “Implications from the Disequilibrium of Majority Rule for the Study of Institutions”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Douglas Rae
Douglas Rae*
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Yale University
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American Political Science Review , Volume 74 , Issue 2 , June 1980 , pp. 451 - 455
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