Introduction Gianluca Damiani This is a section of Looking for a Science of Politics(DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0978-6) by Gianluca Damiani Firenze University Press Florence 2026 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0978-6.02

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This dissertation examines how game theory entered political science through William H. Riker. It reconstructs the intellectual, institutional, and methodological conditions that enabled the rise of Positive Political Theory in postwar American political science.

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