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The authors are grateful to Hayward Alker, Jr., Russell Hardin, and Leslaw Szczerba for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.
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Burns, T.R., Meeker, L.D. A multi-level, structural theory of social behavior. Qual Quant 9, 51–89 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00138741
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