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Voters Punish Politicians with Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2019

Peter John Loewen  and
Ludovic Rheault
Peter John Loewen
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Ludovic Rheault*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: ludovic.rheault@utoronto.ca
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mental healthstigmadepressioncandidate traitsvote choiceexperimentUnited StatesCanada
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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 427 - 436
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