Carolina Quotes'Canadian society' or the 'Canadian nation' cannot decide anything, because no one is in charge.
Tom Flanagan Connected to the Carolinas
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Chapter 1, Rational Choice, p. 5
- work
- Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998)
- year
- 1998
- locator
- p. 5
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