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Do Voters Benchmark Economic Performance?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2019

Vincent Arel-Bundock*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal
André Blais
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal
Ruth Dassonneville
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal
*
*Corresponding author. Email: vincent.arel-bundock@umontreal.ca

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