British questions: A non-instrumentalist answer

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 407-424

  Aughey, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsq005     Document Type: Article

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