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George Rabinowitz, Paul-Henri Gurian, Stuart Elaine Macdonald, The Structure of Presidential Elections and the Process of Realignment, 1944 to 1980, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Nov., 1984), pp. 611-635
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