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William D. Berry, Evan J. Ringquist, Richard C. Fording, Russell L. Hanson, Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the American States, 1960-93, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Jan., 1998), pp. 327-348
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