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Some Problems in Doing Political Theory: A Response to Golembiewski's “Critique”*

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Vincent Ostrom
Vincent Ostrom*
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Indiana University
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American Political Science Review , Volume 71 , Issue 4 , December 1977 , pp. 1508 - 1525
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I appreciate the editorial assistance and critical comments provided by Barbara Allen, John Baden, Robert Bish, Herman Boschken, James Buchanan, Alfred Diamant, Vernon Greene, Phillip Gregg, Herbert Kiesling, Ronald Oakerson, Elinor Ostrom, Philip Sabetti, Mark Sproule-Jones, Pamela Thompson, James Thomson, Gordon Tullock, Robert Warren, Louis Weschler, and Gordon Whitaker; the general assistance of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, and the particular assistance of Marsha Brown, Andrea Lapeyre, Gillian Nevin, and Mary Zielinski.

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