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The Caucus-Race: Teaching Cyclical Majorities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2022

Thomas W. Casstevens*
Affiliation:
Oakland University
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1970

References

1 Arrow, Kenneth J., Social Choice and Individual Values (2nd ed.; New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1963)Google Scholar. Black, Duncan, The Theory of Committees and Elections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958)Google Scholar.

2 This illustration of the pedagogical uses of Lewis Carroll's Alice books suggests many other applications in political science teaching. It is taken from my lectures on systematic political analysis at Oakland University, which were developed during my tenure on a National Science Foundation Science Faculty Fellowship for the study of pure and applied mathematics, 1968-69.

3 Green, Roger Lancelyn (ed.), The Works of Lewis Carroll (London: Paul Hamlyn, 1965)Google Scholar.

4 Weaver, Warren, “Lewis Carroll,” Scientific American (April, 1956)Google Scholar; reprinted in Lives in Science; a Scientific American Book (New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc.; 1957), pp. 241256 Google Scholar.

5 Gardner, Martin, The Annotated Alice (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1960)Google Scholar.

6 Black, The Theory of Committees and Elections, op. cit.