A question of balance: The cult of research intensivity and the professing of political science in Canada - Presidential address to the Canadian Political Science Association, Toronto, Ontario, June 2, 2006

Canadian Journal of Political Science

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 735-754

  Nossal, Kim Richard ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 33846009764     PISSN: 00084239     EISSN: 17449324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0008423906060367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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