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Living Accountability: Hot Rhetoric, Cool Theory, and Uneven Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2014

Barbara S. Romzek
Barbara S. Romzek*
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Special to Ps: The 2014 John Gaus Award Lecture
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 27 - 34
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