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In-Depth Qualitative Research and the Study of American Political Institutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2017

James M. Curry*
Affiliation:
University of Utah

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Symposium: Ethnography and Participant Observation: Political Science Research in this “Late Methodological Moment”
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2017 

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