Public opinion and American democracy

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 5 SPEC. ISSUE, 2011, Pages 982-1017

  Shapiro, Robert Y ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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