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Twenty years of transparency research*
James E. Alt 
James E. Alt
Affiliation: Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Harvard University, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Cambridge, USA
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jalt@iq.harvard.edu
Conference keynote | Year: 2019 | Pages: 5 - 13 | Volume: 43 | Issue: 1 Received: January 16, 2019 | Accepted: January 18, 2019 | Published online: March 11, 2019
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