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One Piece at a Time: The Role of Timing and Sequencing in Pivotal Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2004

Michael A. Smith
Michael A. Smith
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Is a visiting professor of political science at Kansas State University (masmith@ksu.edu)
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Abstract

To get a person in the majority party to vote against one of their own colleagues, you have to give them good government reasons to do it.

—Bill Reardon, Democratic state representative, Kansas

Type
Perspectives
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 85 - 89
Copyright
2004 by the American Political Science Association

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