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To Lift the Curse from Babel: The Need for a Language of Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1972

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1 Genesis, ch. 1, V. 7.

2 Zetterberg, H., On Theory and Verification in Sociology, Bedminster Press, USA, 3rd edn., 1965, p. 50.Google Scholar

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6 For example Elliott, F. and Summerskill, M., A Dictionary of Politics, Penguin, London, 5th edn., 1966;Google Scholar Fraenkel, E. and Bracher, K. (eds.), Staat und Politik, Fischer, Bücherei, Frankfurt, new edn., 1964;Google Scholar Smith, E. and Zurcher, A., Dictionary of American Politics, New York, 2nd edn., 1968.Google Scholar

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8 The present author has attempted to meet it in his A Dictionary of Political Analysis, Longman, London, 1971.

9 Sartori, op. cit.

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