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Some very early ideas on this topic were presented by the author at the Mathematical Social Research Workshop on Analytical Models for Political Analysis, Harvard University, 1972. An earlier version of this paper was read at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, September, 1973. Helpful criticisms and suggestions, sometimes ignored at the author's own peril, were provided by James Barr, Charles Bullock, John Ferejohn, Morris Fiorina, Robert Inman, John Jackson, and Herbert Weisberg. This work was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The author is currently a National Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Neither scholarly nor financial benefactors are responsible for the finished product.
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Shepsle, K.A. Congressional committee assignments. Public Choice 22, 55–78 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01719051
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