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5 - Politics and the Political in Sociological Constitutionalism

from Part II - Constitutional Sociology between the National and the Transnational

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2017

Paul Blokker
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Faculty of Social Sciences/Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University
Chris Thornhill
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
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