Money only Matters if you Want It to? Exposing the Normative Implications of Empirical Research

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 223-232

  Smith, Kevin B ^a   Granberg Rademacker, J Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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EID: 0141596035     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/106591290305600210     Document Type: Article

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