Politics, public policy, and inequality: A look back at the twentieth century

Social Inequality

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 861-892

  Rosenthal, Howard ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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