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Introduction to the Virtual Issue: Measurement in Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

William G. Jacoby*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, email: [email protected]
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Copyright © Society for Political Methodology 2014 

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