An Evolutionary Theory of Democracy: Dynamic Evolutionary Models of American Party Competition with an Empirical Application to the Case of Abortion Policy from 1972-2010

Keywords

Abortion, Competition (biology), Democracy, Evolutionary theory, Political science

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