BLACK,DUNCAN AND CARROLL,LEWIS

After evaluating the stature of Duncan Black as one of the founders of the modern theoretical study of politics, we show how frustrated Blac k was by the lack of recognition accorded to his work, especially in t he UK. This led to considerable difficulty in getting his work publish ed. In particular, his work on a like-minded predecessor, C. L. Dodgso n ('Lewis Carroll'), remains in part unpublished. In it, Black withdra ws his earlier assertion that Carroll's work on proportional represent ation and tennis tournaments was 'trivial', in favor of detailed analy sis of Carroll's contribution; which Black praises extravagantly as be ing one of the most important contributions ever to Political Science. We conclude by relating Carroll's theorem of 1884 on the proportional ity of what is now called Single Nontransferable Vote (SNTV) to the mo dern literature.