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Economic Models in Political Science: the Case of ‘Exit Voice, and Loyalty’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

A. H Birch
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In a valuable recent article, Brian Barry has given us an extended commentary on the logic of Albert Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, which Barry rightly regards as a good example of that phenomenon of American political science,

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1975 , pp. 69 - 82
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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5 The exceptions include two or three people who started to teach before the war and four or five who came to Britain after 1959 from overseas. But the latter were substantially outnumbered by British lecturers who went overseas to further their careers.

6 Naturally, the above comments only hold good to the extent that scholars are motivated by consideration of individual costs and benefits. This is the nature of economic analysis.

7 Both these quotations are taken from an article in the Observer, London, 10 03 1974.Google Scholar

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15 When a 15-year-old schoolgirl in Southampton killed herself because of school bullying, it was revealed that in the previous year in the same city (population 213,000) twenty-eight other schoolgirls had attempted suicide. A local psychiatrist said that hospitals and clinics were having to deal with more and more children 'who have developed acute anxiety in school and are showing very negative attitudes towards their teachers'. Quoted in the Daily Mail, 5 03 1974.Google Scholar

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