Explaining variance; Or, stuck in a moment we can't get out of

Political Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 268-290

  Braumoeller, Bear F ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpj009     Document Type: Article

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