Election Time: Normative Implications of Temporal Properties of the Electoral Process in the United States

American Political Science Review

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-64

  Thompson, Dennis F ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1642618556     PISSN: 00030554     EISSN: 15375943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0003055404000991     Document Type: Review

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