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The comparative (party) politics of the Great Recession: Causes, consequences and future research agenda

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The authors would like to acknowledge support from the Chilean Millennium Science Initiative (project NS130008) and they would also like to thank Aldo Madariaga, the anonymous reviewer and David Bailey, who is the reviews editor of Comparative European Politics, for their useful comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript. Any remaining errors are ours alone.

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Kaltwasser, C., Zanotti, L. The comparative (party) politics of the Great Recession: Causes, consequences and future research agenda. Comp Eur Polit 16, 535–548 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2016.22

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