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Political parties and migration policy puzzles: The European scene

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Travel funding for conference attendances was generously provided by the ‘Karl Staaffs fond för frisinnade ändamål’ and ‘Åke Wibergs fond’.

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    Gregg Bucken-Knapp

  2. Department of Political Science, Box 711, Gothenburg, 405 30, Sweden

    Jonas Hinnfors & Andrea Spehar

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Bucken-Knapp, G., Hinnfors, J. & Spehar, A. Political parties and migration policy puzzles: The European scene. Comp Eur Polit 12, 557–567 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2014.19

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