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Retreading Familiar Terrain—Bias, Peer Review, and the NSF Political Science Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2022

Lee Sigelman
Affiliation:
National Science Foundation
Frank P. Scioli Jr.
Affiliation:
National Science Foundation

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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1987

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