Aligning ontology and methodology in comparative Politics

Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 373-404

  Hall, Peter A ^a  

^a HARVARD COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511803963.012     Document Type: Chapter

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