Positive Political Theory II
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Positive Political Theory II (University of Michigan Press, 2005) regrettably contains a variety of obscurities and errors, both typographical and substantive. Most of these are apparent and the appropriate corrections evident. Unfortunately, a few of the mistakes to surface are egregious (and thus correspondingly embarrassing ...). So, with apologies to Je¤ and to those using this book, the mistakes within this category identi ed so far are located and corrected below.
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