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Social Science Should Be a Process, Not a Bloody Shirt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Edward Muir*
Affiliation:
American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 2000

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The views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of the American Federation of Teachers.

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