Choice or circumstance? Adjusting measures of foreign policy similarity for chance agreement

Political Analysis

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 287-305

  Häge, Frank M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

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EID: 80051978773     PISSN: 10471987     EISSN: 14764989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpr023     Document Type: Article

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