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Elite Communication and the Governmental Process: Samoa and the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Robert E. Lane
Robert E. Lane
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Yale University
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World Politics , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , April 1958 , pp. 430 - 437
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1958

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