DIRECT DEMOCRACY: New Approaches to Old Questions

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Annual Review of Political Science

• Publication date

  2004-05-17

• Fields of study

  Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1146/ANNUREV.POLISCI.7.012003.104730
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