Europeans´ Left-Right Orientations: Increasingly Centrist and/or Irrelavant?
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عنوان ژورنال: Perspectivas - Journal of Political Science
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2184-3902,1646-2157
DOI: 10.21814/perspectivas.24