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Why Forecast? The Value of Forecasting to Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2020

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Forecasting the 2020 US Elections
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 104 - 106
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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