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Exit, Voice, and Albert O. Hirschman

Harvard Business Review

Do you a) switch over to the Democrats, b) raise hell in the media, or c) try to stay welcome in the party's corridors of power in order to quietly exercise your influence? A fashionable political science theory of the 1950s and 1960s held that, in a two-party system, vote-maximizing parties would inexorably move toward the political center.