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William H. Riker and the Invention of Heresthetic(s)

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AN INTELLECTUAL ODYSSEY[L]egislative strategy, which most writers have treated as a mystical art … , may on examination by this [social choice] theory turn out to be a science with quite coherent rules.W. Riker, ‘Voting and the Summation of Preferences: An Interpretive Bibliographical Review of Selected Developments During the Last Decade’, American Political Science Review, 55 (1961), 900–11, quoted at p. 911.At the most general level there are the things people talk about as possible subjects for group decision. Call this the feasible set. From this misty swamp, politicians – by constitutional restrictions and direction and by rhetorical and heresthetical maneuvers – form the set of considered issues.William H. Riker, Agenda Formation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), p. 2.

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  • McLEAN, IAIN, 2002. "William H. Riker and the Invention of Heresthetic(s)," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 32(3), pages 535-558, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:32:y:2002:i:03:p:535-558_00
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    1. Scott Feld & Samuel Merrill & Bernard Grofman, 2014. "Modeling the effects of changing issue salience in two-party competition," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 158(3), pages 465-482, March.
    2. Colin Hay, 2009. "King Canute and the ‘Problem’ of Structure and Agency: On Times, Tides and Heresthetics," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 57(2), pages 260-279, June.
    3. Stephen C. Phillips & Alex P. Smith & Peter R. Licari, 2022. "Philadelphia reconsidered: participant curation, the Gerry Committee, and US constitutional design," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 190(3), pages 407-426, March.
    4. Jane Green, 2007. "When Voters and Parties Agree: Valence Issues and Party Competition," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 55(3), pages 629-655, October.
    5. William Hixon & Bryan W. Marshall, 2007. "Agendas, Side Issues and Leadership in the US House," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 19(1), pages 83-99, January.

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