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Studying Congress through Time: A Comment on Joseph Cooper and David Brady, “Toward a Diachronic Analysis of Congress”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Nelson W. Polsby*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

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Type
Research Frontier Essay
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1981

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