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A Glass Half-Full? No, but Perhaps a Glass Filling: The Contributions of International Politics Research to Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Randolph M. Siverson*
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis

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The Public Value of Political Research
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 2000

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Footnotes

*

In the course of preparing this paper, I benefitted from conversations with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Stanley Feder, James Morrow, and Michael Ward, and the help of Robert Friedheim. They, of course, are not responsible for any errors.

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