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Voting in Canadian Communities: A Taxonomy of Referendum Issues*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

Harlan Hahn
Harlan Hahn
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University of California, Riverside
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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 1968 , pp. 462 - 469
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1968

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7 Ibid., 222.

8 The author wishes to express his appreciation to Mrs. B. Isabel Brown of the Bureau of Economic Research, Canadian Dental Association, and to Mr. Lloyd H. Bowen of the National Fluoridation Committee, Health League of Canada, for their assistance in preparing and verifying this list.

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