In reality, complete rotation of parish deputies does not necessarily follow from
the above mentioned regulations. Under the stipulated rules, 60 percent of the
voters could form a coalition to ensure that three subgroups of 20 percent each
rotated in office. Harrington, then, seems to have miscalculated the effects of the
provisions he recommended, for he explicitly claimed, in
The Prerogative of Popular
Government, that they secured a complete rotation of deputies at the parish level
(see the passage cited below at note 70). I am indebted to Jon Elster for this
observation.