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Is Putin’s Popularity (Still) Real? A Cautionary Note on Using List Experiments to Measure Popularity in Authoritarian Regimes

  • May 3, 2022
  • Timothy Frye, Scott Gehlbach, Kyle L. Marquardt and Ora John Reuter
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  • Henry Hale, Ora John Reuter, Bryn Rosenfeld, David Szakonyi and Katerina Tertytchnaya
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  • Ora John Reuter and David Szakonyi
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  • October 21, 2019
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  • August 30, 2017
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  • June 5, 2017
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  • May 1, 2017
  • Ora John Reuter
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  • March 29, 2017
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