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Roll-Call Votes in the German Bundestag: A New Dataset, 1949–2013

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Ulrich Sieberer Open the ORCID record for Ulrich Sieberer [Opens in a new window] ,
Thomas Saalfeld Open the ORCID record for Thomas Saalfeld [Opens in a new window] ,
Tamaki Ohmura Open the ORCID record for Tamaki Ohmura [Opens in a new window] ,
Henning Bergmann Open the ORCID record for Henning Bergmann [Opens in a new window]  and
Stefanie Bailer Open the ORCID record for Stefanie Bailer [Opens in a new window]
Ulrich Sieberer
Affiliation:
University of Bamberg
Thomas Saalfeld
Affiliation:
University of Bamberg
Tamaki Ohmura
Affiliation:
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Henning Bergmann
Affiliation:
University of Bamberg
Stefanie Bailer
Affiliation:
University of Basel
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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , July 2020 , pp. 1137 - 1145
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