Thomas "Tom" Flanagan citations

Thomas Eugene Flanagan, né le 5 mars 1944 à Ottawa dans l'Illinois, est un professeur américain de sciences politiques à l'université de Calgary en Alberta . Wikipedia  

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Thomas "Tom" Flanagan: Citations en anglais

“Finally, it should also be noted that the very existence of a bicameral legislature is itself another defence of the status quo.”

Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 8, Staying Power of the Status Quo, p. 138

“For the foreseeable future, Canada will have to be functionally bimetric, as well as a bilingual, country.”

Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 4, Models of Metrication, p. 58.

“Thomas Flanagan: Well I'm feeling pretty manly today…”

Power and Politics with Evan Solomon, CBC Newsworld, November 30, 2010, 6:10pm authenticate here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VADui7m9rgw&feature=related

“There is no iron law here, but there is clearly some tendency for larger-than-necessary coalitions to disintegrate.”

Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 5, How Many Are Too Many? Size of Coalitions, p. 88.

“I prize every candle in the darkness of the universe, even if it is not a supernova of blinding illumination.”

Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 10, What Have We Learned?, p. 170 (Last text line...).

“Canadian society' or the 'Canadian nation' cannot decide anything, because no one is in charge.”

Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 1, Rational Choice, p. 5

“Like all of mathematics, game theory is a tautology whose conclusions are true because they are contained in the premises.”

Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 10, What Have We Learned?, p. 164.

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