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Comparison with an Ethnographic Sensibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2017

Erica S. Simmons
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Nicholas Rush Smith
Affiliation:
City University of New York, City College

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Symposium: Ethnography and Participant Observation: Political Science Research in this “Late Methodological Moment”
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2017 

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