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Volume 39, Issue 4 (October 2007)

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Preserving the Initiative: State Legislative Response to Direct Democracy

Kathleen Ferraiolo

Polity 39: 425-448; doi:10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300087

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Race, Political Empowerment, and Constituency Service: Descriptive Representation and the Hiring of African-American Congressional Staff

Christian R Grose, Maruice Mangum and Christopher Martin

Polity 39: 449-478; doi:10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300081

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Constitutionalism, Judiciary, and Democracy in Islamic Societies

Günes cedil Murat Tezcür

Polity 39: 479-501; doi:10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300086

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Philosophy and Empire: On Socrates and Alcibiades in Plato's Symposium

Mary P Nichols

Polity 39: 502-521; doi:10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300066

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Beyond God-Talk: Understanding the Christian Right From the Ground Up

Nathaniel J Klemp

Polity 39: 522-544; doi:10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300062

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James Madison's Republic of "Mean Extent" Theory: Avoiding The Scylla and Charybdis of Republican Government

Tiffany Jones Miller

Polity 39: 545-569; doi:10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300075

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