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Why It Is Difficult to Teach Comparative Politics to American Students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Robert Cox*
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma
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The author would like to thank Mark Brandon, Gary Copeland, and Luz-Eugenia Köeck-Fuenzalida for their comments on an earlier draft of this article.

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