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I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for criticisms made of earlier drafts of this study to Alex Simirenko, Roger Walker, Albert Wessen, Rollin Posey, and Alain Touraine. Needless to add, shortcomings of fact and theory are my own responsibility.

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Horowitz, I.L. Party charisma. St Comp Int Dev 1, 83–97 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02800567

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