| William H. Riker |
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| riker, william h. | |
| 1993 deaths | |
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Riker was born in Des Moines, Iowa , and received his PhD at Harvard University in 1948 . He took on a professorship at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin (then Lawrence College), where he published ''The Theory of Political Coalitions''. In 1962 , he became the chair of the Political Science at the University Of Rochester , where he remained chair until 1977 , and remained active until his death. Among other contributions, he is known for work on the theory and history of Federalism and on something he called "heresthetics" - the art politicians use when they change political outcomes without changing peoples' underlying preferences, for example by manipulating the order in which decisions are made. ''See also:'' Duverger's Law EXTERNAL LINKS |