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Power and Politics with Evan Solomon, CBC Newsworld, November 30, 2010, 6:10pm authenticate here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VADui7m9rgw&feature=related

“There is no iron law here, but there is clearly some tendency for larger-than-necessary coalitions to disintegrate.”

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Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Quelle: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 5, How Many Are Too Many? Size of Coalitions, p. 88.

“I want to illustrate the concept of a solution in mixed strategies with a concrete example using real-world data, but I have not been able to find an appropriate one from Canadian politics.”

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Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Quelle: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 2, Game Theory, p. 30.

“Public opinion can become polarized into a bimodal distribution with only a few people in the centre and many more lying toward the extremes. But under such circumstances, democracy will probably break down into civil war, and spatial models of party competition will be irrelevant until order is restored.”

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Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Quelle: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 9, Invasion From The Right: Reform Party in 1993 Election, p. 142.

“I prize every candle in the darkness of the universe, even if it is not a supernova of blinding illumination.”

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Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Quelle: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 10, What Have We Learned?, p. 170 (Last text line...).

“Canadian society' or the 'Canadian nation' cannot decide anything, because no one is in charge.”

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Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Quelle: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 1, Rational Choice, p. 5

“In its Morgentaler decision of January 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the centrepiece of Canada's abortion law, section 251 of the Criminal Code. The court held that it conflicted with section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees the 'security of the person'. This ruling radically changed the legal status quo; it was as if Parliament had repealed that section of the Criminal Code without passing a replacement amendment.”

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Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Quelle: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 8, Staying Power of the Status Quo, p. 120.

“Like all of mathematics, game theory is a tautology whose conclusions are true because they are contained in the premises.”

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Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Quelle: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 10, What Have We Learned?, p. 164.

“The foot, the pound, and the pint are all close to the size of many things used in daily life. In contrast, the metre, the kilogram, and the litre are all rather large, and the centimetre, the gram, and the millilitre rather small, for many practical uses.”

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Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Quelle: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 4, Models of Metrication, p. 64.

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