The Impact of Candidate Name Order on Election Outcomes

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Public Opinion Quarterly

• Publication date

  1998-11-01

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1086/297848
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  Semantic Scholar

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