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The Political Science Undergraduate Major and Its Future: The Wahlke Report—Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2021

Steven Rathgeb Smith
Affiliation:
American Political Science Association
Meghan McConaughey
Affiliation:
American Political Science Association

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Rethinking the Undergraduate Political Science Major
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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