Fraudulent Democracy? An analysis of Argentina's Infamous Decade using supervised machine learning

Political Analysis

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 409-433

  Cantú, Francisco ^a   Saiegh, Sebastián M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84857027271     PISSN: 10471987     EISSN: 14764989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpr033     Document Type: Article

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