Tau-b or not Tau-b: Measuring the similarity of foreign policy positions

International Studies Quarterly

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 115-144

  Signorino, Curtis S ^a   Ritter, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 0033061538     PISSN: 00208833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0020-8833.00113     Document Type: Article

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