Carolina QuotesPublic 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.
Tom Flanagan Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 9, Invasion From The Right: Reform Party in 1993 Election, p. 142.
- work
- Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998)
- year
- 1993
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- p. 142
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