Simulating the micro-macro link: New approaches to an old problem and an application to military coups

Sociological Methodology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-79

  Saam, Nicole J ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/0081-1750.00060     Document Type: Article

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