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        <title type="main" level="a">The developments of Positive political theory</title>
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            <forename>Gianluca</forename>
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          <resp>This is a section of <title>Looking for a Science of Politics</title>(DOI: <idno type="DOI">10.36253/979-12-215-0978-6</idno>) by </resp>
          <name>Gianluca Damiani</name>
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        <publisher>Firenze University Press</publisher>
        <pubPlace>Florence</pubPlace>
        <date when="2026">2026</date>
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        <p>The chapter examines how Positive Political Theory was institutionalized at Rochester and beyond, tracing its diffusion in the 1960s and 1970s and assessing later developments, including critiques and extensions of Riker’s original framework.</p>
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            <item>University of Rochester</item>
            <item>Game Theory revolution</item>
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      <p>It is available online at https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0978-6.07<ref target="https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0978-6.07" /></p>
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