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Out of the Past: Theoretical and Methodological Contributions of Congressional History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Elaine K. Swift
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David W. Brady
Affiliation:
Stanford University
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