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Reflexive Openness as Collaborative Methodology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2021

Susan Thomson*
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Colgate University

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Quantitative and Qualitative Collaborative Methodologies
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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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