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We wish to acknowledge earlier work done on the Supreme Court case analyzed here by Robin Jo Artz in an undergraduate honors thesis at New York University under the senior author's direction, and to thank Joel B. Grossman and Nigel Howard for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. None of these people, of course, should be held responsible for the conclusions we draw from the present analysis.
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Brams, S.J., Muzzio, D. Unanimity in the supreme court: A game-theoretic explanation of the decision in the white house tapes case. Public Choice 32, 67–83 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01718670
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