Research Guides: PLSC 20103: Introduction to Comparative Politics: Getting Started

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Welcome to the Introduction to Comparative Politics Research Guide!

This guide was created to assist students in discovering authoritative resources for the assignments in PLSC 2013. For the purpose of this class Wikipedia and Google are not considered authoritative resources.

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