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Comparative Political Science: An Inventory and Assessment since the 1980's

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Adrian Prentice Hull*
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University of Colorado at Boulder
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Footnotes

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I gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and criticisms of my advisor James Scarritt, James Caporaso, David Lai, Glen Galaich, Robert Lopez, Adam Resnick, Roberta Gibbons, and Chuck Tooman. Errors and omissions are, of course, the fault of the author.

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