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100	1		_aRiker, William H. _9539
245	1	4	_aThe art of political manipulation / _cWilliam H. Riker.
260			_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _cc1986.
300			_axiii, 152 p. ; _c22 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
505	0		_aCh. 1. Lincoln at Freeport -- Ch. 2. Chauncey DePew and the seventeenth amendment -- Ch. 3. The flying club -- Ch. 4. Gouverneur Morris in the Philadelphia convention -- Ch. 5. Heresthetic in fiction -- Ch. 6. Camouflaging the gerrymander -- Ch. 7. Pliny the younger on parliamentary law -- Ch. 8. Trading votes at the constitutional convention -- Ch. 9. How to win on a roll call by not voting -- Ch. 10. Warren Magnuson and nerve gas -- Ch. 11. Exploiting the Powell amendment -- Ch. 12. Reed and Cannon.
520			_aIn twelve entertaining stories from history and current events, a noted political scientist and game theorist shows us how some of our heroes we as well as ordinary folk have manipulated their opponents in order to win political advantage. The stories come from many times and places, because manipulation of people by other people is universal: from the Roman Senate through the Constitutional Convention of 1787, to the Congress, state legislatures, and city councils of twentieth-century America. The results of manipulation are not trivial, as we see, for example, in Riker’s account of Lincoln’s outmaneuvering of Douglas in their debates and in his description of the parliamentary trick that defeated the Equal Rights Amendment only six years ago in the Virginia Senate. The tales can be enjoyed by anyone. For the scholar, they are held together by a concluding chapter in which Riker discusses the feature of politics that all of the manipulators exploited and sketches out the new political theory that explains why manipulation works the way it does.
650		0	_aPolitical leadership _9540
650		0	_aPolitical planning _9541
650		0	_aGames of strategy (Mathematics) _9542
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