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The Unit of Political Analysis: Our Aristotelian Hangover

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  1. Efforts have been made in Jane Jaquette (ed.), Women in Politics (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1974); Marianne Githens and Jewel L. Prestage (eds.), A Portrait of Marginality (New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1977) Jeanne Kirkpatrick, The New Presidential Elite (New York: Russell Sage Foundation and the Twentieth Century Fund, 1976); Marjorie Lansing and Sandra Baxter, Women and Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1980).

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Stiehm, J.H. (1983). The Unit of Political Analysis: Our Aristotelian Hangover. In: Harding, S., Hintikka, M.B. (eds) Discovering Reality. Synthese Library, vol 161. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48017-4_3

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