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Regional Studies Volume 47, 2013 - Issue 3: Towards a Regional Political Science: Data and Methods ‘Beyond Methodological Nationalism’
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Are Regional Elections really ‘Second-Order’ Elections?

Arjan H. Schakel Department of Political Science, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, NL-6200 MD, Maastricht, the NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Charlie Jeffery School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, 15a George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, UK E-mail: [email protected]
Pages 323-341 | Received 01 Feb 2011, Published online: 15 Jun 2012

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