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Employment (3)

University of California Riverside: Riverside, CA, US

2003-07-01 to present | Asst., Assoc., Full Professor (Public Policy and Political Science)
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Kevin Esterling

University of California Riverside: Riverside, CA, US

2016-09-18 to 2017-07-01 | Interim Dean (Graduate Division)
Employment
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Kevin Esterling

University of California Riverside: Riverside, CA, US

2012-07-01 to 2016-08-31 | Assoc. Dean (Graduate Division)
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Education and qualifications (4)

Brown University: Providence, RI, US

2002-08-01 to 2003-06-30 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Taubman Center)
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Kevin Esterling

University of California Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

2000-08-01 to 2002-07-31 | Postdoctoral Fellow (RWJF Fellowship)
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Kevin Esterling

University of Chicago: Chicago, IL, US

1999-12-01 | Ph.D. (Political Science)
Education
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Kevin Esterling

University of Virginia: Charlottesville, VA, US

1989-01-01 | BA (Government and Foreign Affairs)
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Professional activities (2)

Research & Politics: Journal, US

2018-03-06 to present | Editor
Service
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Kevin Esterling

University of California Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

2012-09-01 to present | Executive Committee (Berkeley Initiative on Transparency in the Social Sciences)
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Funding (10)

Connecting Classrooms to Congress: Fostering Informed Civic Engagement via Online Deliberative Town Halls

2021-07 to 2025-06 | Award
Institute of Education Sciences (DC, DC, US)
GRANT_NUMBER:

305A210359
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Kevin Esterling

The Prytanea Project: A Web-Based Town Hall Platform

2020-05 to 2021-10 | Grant
Democracy Fund (Washington, DC, US)
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Kevin Esterling

REU Site: Materials Connection (MacReu R'Side)

2020-03-15 to 2023-02-28 | Grant
Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences (Arlington, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.8832640
GRANT_NUMBER: 1950619
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REU Site: Materials Connection (MacReu R'Side)

2017-03-15 to 2021-02-28 | Grant
Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences (Arlington, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.6933870
GRANT_NUMBER: 1659450
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To support a conference on causal inference methodologies both in computer science and in the social sciences

2016-10-01 to 2017-10-01 | Grant
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (New York, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.7547840
GRANT_NUMBER: 8054
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Institutional Transformation: Institutional Re-engineering Ethical Discourse in STEM (iREDS)

2015-10-01 to 2019-09-30 | Grant
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (Arlington, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.4313113
GRANT_NUMBER: 1540440
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REU Site: Materials Connection (MaCReu R'Side)

2014-02-01 to 2018-01-31 | Grant
Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences (Arlington, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3005829
GRANT_NUMBER: 1359136
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Kevin Esterling via DimensionsWizard

Collaborative Research: Connecting to Congress: The Adoption and Use of Web Technologies Among Congressional Offices

2004-10-01 to 2010-09-30 | Grant
Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (Arlington, US)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3051505
GRANT_NUMBER: 0429452
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Building Local-level Capacity for Implementing Decarbonization Strategies: Empowering Community Engagement Using Deliberative Online Town Halls

Award
California Air Resources Board (CA, CA, US)
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Kevin Esterling

NRT-FW-HTF for Science to Policy Education: Activating Knowledge for Sustainable Transportation (SPEAKS) (current proposal)

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National Science Foundation (VA, VA, US)
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Works (46)

Solving the Problem of "Many-to-One" Communicative Action: Re-designing the Webinar using Technology-Enabled Deliberative Theory

2025-03-04 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/9gzxj_v4
Contributors: Kevin Esterling; Euchan Jang; Ben Treves; Kelton Adey
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Solving the Problem of "Many-to-One" Communicative Action: Re-designing the Webinar using Technology-Enabled Deliberative Theory

2024-12-05 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/9gzxj_v1
Contributors: Kevin Esterling; Euchan Jang; Ben Treves; Kelton Adey
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Solving the Problem of "Many-to-One" Communicative Action: Re-designing the Webinar using Technology-Enabled Deliberative Theory

2024-12-05 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/9gzxj
Contributors: Kevin Esterling
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Flexible Estimation of Policy Preferences for Witnesses in Committee Hearings

Political Analysis
2024-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/pan.2024.6
Contributors: Kevin M. Esterling; Ju Yeon Park
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Post-January 6th deplatforming reduced the reach of misinformation on Twitter

Nature
2024-06-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07524-8
Contributors: Stefan D. McCabe; Diogo Ferrari; Jon Green; David M. J. Lazer; Kevin M. Esterling
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Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science

Research & Politics
2024-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/20531680241233439
Contributors: Abel Brodeur; Kevin Esterling; Jörg Ankel-Peters; Natália S. Bueno; Scott Desposato; Anna Dreber; Federica Genovese; Donald P. Green; Matthew Hepplewhite; Fernando Hoces de la Guardia et al.
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Does Familiarity Breed Esteem? A Field Experiment on Emergent Attitudes Toward Members of Congress

Political Research Quarterly
2023-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/10659129211073910
Contributors: Kevin M. Esterling; William Minozzi; Michael A. Neblo
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Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform. Edited by Timothy M. LaPira, Lee Drutman, and Kevin R. Kosar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 352p. $105.00 cloth, $35.00 paper.

Perspectives on Politics
2022-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S1537592722001888
Contributors: Kevin M. Esterling
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Initial evidence of research quality of registered reports compared with the standard publishing model

Nature Human Behaviour
2021-06-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01142-4
Contributors: Courtney K. Soderberg; Timothy M. Errington; Sarah R. Schiavone; Julia Bottesini; Felix Singleton Thorn; Simine Vazire; Kevin M. Esterling; Brian A. Nosek
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Flexible Estimation of Policy Preferences for Witnesses in Committee Hearings

2021-04-30 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/pwjy4
Contributors: Kevin Esterling; Ju Yeon Park
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When Deliberation Produces Persuasion rather than Polarization: Measuring and modeling Small Group Dynamics in a Field Experiment

British Journal of Political Science
2021-04-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S0007123419000243
Contributors: Kevin M. Esterling; Archon Fung; Taeku Lee
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The Necessity of Construct and External Validity for Deductive Causal Inference

2021-01-27 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/2s8w5
Contributors: Kevin Esterling; David Brady; Eric Schwitzgebel
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Demographics and (Equal?) Voice: Assessing Participation in Online Deliberative Sessions

Political Studies
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0032321719890805
EID:

2-s2.0-85081977455

Part of ISBN:

14679248 00323217
Contributors: Kennedy, R.; Sokhey, A.E.; Abernathy, C.; Esterling, K.M.; Lazer, D.M.J.; Lee, A.; Minozzi, W.; Neblo, M.A.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Sensitivity Analysis for Pretreatment Confounding With Multiple Mediators

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3102/1076998620934500
EID:

2-s2.0-85087314530

Part of ISBN:

10769986
Contributors: Park, S.; Esterling, K.M.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Initial Evidence of Research Quality of Registered Reports Compared to the Traditional Publishing Model

2020-11-16 | Other
DOI: 10.31222/osf.io/7x9vy
Contributors: Courtney K. Soderberg; Timothy M. Errington; Sarah R. Schiavone; Julia G. Bottesini; Felix Singleton Thorn; Simine Vazire; Kevin Esterling; Brian A. Nosek
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A randomized trial of a lab-embedded discourse intervention to improve research ethics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020-01-21 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1917848117
Contributors: Dena K. Plemmons; Erica N. Baranski; Kyle Harp; David D. Lo; Courtney K. Soderberg; Timothy M. Errington; Brian A. Nosek; Kevin M. Esterling
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Constituent Communication Through Telephone Town Halls: A Field Experiment Involving Members of Congress

Legislative Studies Quarterly
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/lsq.12242
EID:

2-s2.0-85065669402

Part of ISBN:

19399162 03629805
Contributors: Abernathy, C.; Esterling, K.M.; Freebourn, J.; Kennedy, R.; Minozzi, W.; Neblo, M.A.; Solis, J.A.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Citizen Reasoning within Counterfactual Democratic Institutions

PS: Political Science & Politics
2019-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S1049096519000878
Contributors: Kevin M. Esterling
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Politics With the People

Cambridge University Press
2018-09-01 | Book
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Kevin Esterling

The need for a translational science of democracy

Science
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/science.aal3900
EID:

2-s2.0-85014687010

Part of ISBN:

10959203 00368075
Contributors: Neblo, M.A.; Minozzi, W.; Esterling, K.M.; Green, J.; Kingzette, J.; Lazer, D.M.J.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Expanding the Conversation: Multiplier Effects From a Deliberative Field Experiment

Political Communication
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2015.1017032
EID:

2-s2.0-84944173148

Part of ISBN:

10917675 10584609
Contributors: Lazer, D.M.; Sokhey, A.E.; Neblo, M.A.; Esterling, K.M.; Kennedy, R.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Field experiment evidence of substantive, attributional, and behavioral persuasion by members of Congress in online town halls

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418188112
EID:

2-s2.0-84961289786

Part of ISBN:

10916490 00278424
Contributors: Minozzi, W.; Neblo, M.A.; Esterling, K.M.; Lazer, D.M.J.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

How Much Disagreement is Good for Democratic Deliberation?

Political Communication
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2014.969466
EID:

2-s2.0-84944173039

Part of ISBN:

10917675 10584609
Contributors: Esterling, K.M.; Fung, A.; Lee, T.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

GOTJ: Get Out the Juror

Political Behavior
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-013-9244-2
EID:

2-s2.0-84905257126

Part of ISBN:

01909320
Contributors: Bowler, S.; Esterling, K.; Holmes, D.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Pharmaceutical drugs chatter on Online Social Networks

Journal of Biomedical Informatics
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2014.03.006
EID:

2-s2.0-84902546089

Part of ISBN:

15320464
Contributors: Wiley, M.T.; Jin, C.; Hristidis, V.; Esterling, K.M.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Promoting transparency in social science research

Science
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/science.1245317
EID:

2-s2.0-84892730713

Part of ISBN:

10959203 00368075
Contributors: Miguel, E.; Camerer, C.; Casey, K.; Cohen, J.; Esterling, K.M.; Gerber, A.; Glennerster, R.; Green, D.P.; Humphreys, M.; Imbens, G. et al.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Atoms-first curriculum: A comparison of student success in general chemistry

Journal of Chemical Education
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/ed300725m
EID:

2-s2.0-84887572386

Part of ISBN:

00219584 19381328
Contributors: Esterling, K.M.; Bartels, L.
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Connecting to Constituents: The Diffusion of Representation Practices among Congressional Websites

Political Research Quarterly
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1065912911434161
EID:

2-s2.0-84873952740

Part of ISBN:

10659129
Contributors: Esterling, K.M.; Lazer, D.M.J.; Neblo, M.A.
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"Deliberative disagreement" in U.S. Health policy committee hearings

Legislative Studies Quarterly
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-9162.2011.00010.x
EID:

2-s2.0-79955634887

Part of ISBN:

03629805 19399162
Contributors: Esterling, K.M.
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Estimating treatment effects in the presence of noncompliance and nonresponse: The generalized endogenous treatment model

Political Analysis
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpr005
EID:

2-s2.0-79959758600

Part of ISBN:

10471987 14764989
Contributors: Esterling, K.M.; Neblo, M.A.; Lazer, D.M.J.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Means, motive, and opportunity in becoming informed about politics: A deliberative field experiment with members of congress and their constituents

Public Opinion Quarterly
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfr001
EID:

2-s2.0-80053494949

Part of ISBN:

0033362X 15375331
Contributors: Esterling, K.M.; Neblo, M.A.; Lazer, D.M.J.
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Representative communication: Web site interactivity and distributional path dependence in the u.s. congress

Political Communication
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2011.616875
EID:

2-s2.0-84859024079

Part of ISBN:

10584609 10917675
Contributors: Esterling, K.M.; Lazer, D.M.J.; Neblo, M.A.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

The multiple institutional logics of innovation

International Public Management Journal
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2011.618308
EID:

2-s2.0-82055180641

Part of ISBN:

10967494
Contributors: Lazer, D.; Mergel, I.; Ziniel, C.; Esterling, K.M.; Neblo, M.A.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Who wants to deliberate -- and why?

American Political Science Review
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S0003055410000298
EID:

2-s2.0-77958510647

Part of ISBN:

00030554 15375943
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Does the federal government learn from the states medicaid and the limits of expertise in the intergovernmental lobby

Publius
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/publius/pjn025
EID:

2-s2.0-58049176678

Part of ISBN:

00485950 17477107
Contributors: Esterling, K.M.
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Buying expertise: Campaign contributions and attention to policy analysis in congressional committees

American Political Science Review
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S0003055407070116
EID:

2-s2.0-33947530140

Part of ISBN:

00030554 15375943
Contributors: Esterling, K.M.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Connecting to Congress

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
2006 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/1146598.1146655
EID:

2-s2.0-34250874725
Contributors: Lazer, D.; Fountain, J.; Esterling, K.; Mergel, I.; Neblo, M.; Ziniel, C.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Measuring and explaining the quality of web sites in the (Virtual) house of representatives

Current Issues and Trends in E-Government Research
2006 | Book chapter
Part of DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-283-1.ch007
EID:

2-s2.0-84900270228
Contributors: Esterling, K.M.; Lazer, D.M.J.; Neblo, M.A.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Technology adoption and institutional change in the United States Senate: An analysis of web site content

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
2006 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/1146598.1146714
EID:

2-s2.0-34250751785
Contributors: Esterling, K.; Lazer, D.; Neblo, M.
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Home (Page) Style: Determinates of the Quality of the House Members' Web Sites

International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR)
2005 | Journal article
DOI: 10.4018/jegr.2005040103
EID:

2-s2.0-85001544022

Part of ISBN:

15483894 15483886
Contributors: Esterling, K.; Lazer, D.M.J.; Neblo, M.A.
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Friends, Brokers, and Transitivity: Who Informs Whom in Washington Politics?

Journal of Politics
2004 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2508.2004.00149.x
EID:

2-s2.0-1442306540

Part of ISBN:

00223816
Contributors: Carpenter, D.P.; Esterling, K.M.; Lazer, D.M.J.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

The political economy of expertise: Information and efficiency in American national politics

The Political Economy of Expertise: Information and Efficiency in American National Politics
2004 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-84898349602
Contributors: Esterling, K.M.
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The strength of strong ties: A model of contact-making in policy networks with evidence from U.S. Health politics

Rationality and Society
2003 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1043463103154001
EID:

2-s2.0-0348230488

Part of ISBN:

10434631
Contributors: Carpenter, D.; Esterling, K.; Lazer, D.
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Kevin Esterling via Scopus - Elsevier

Judicial accountability the right way

Judicature
1999 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-0347877302

Part of ISBN:

00225800
Contributors: Esterling, K.M.
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The cornerstone of judicial independence

Judicature
1998 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-0347018738

Part of ISBN:

00225800
Contributors: Esterling, K.M.
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The strength of weak ties in lobbying networks: Evidence from health-care politics in the United States

Journal of Theoretical Politics
1998 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0951692898010004003
EID:

2-s2.0-0032329201

Part of ISBN:

09516298
Contributors: Carpenter, D.P.; Esterling, K.M.; Lazer, D.M.J.
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