Does changing the rules change the players? The effect of all-mail elections on the composition of the electorate

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 837-845

  Southwell, Priscilla ^a   Burchett, Justin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b NONE

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