Political Sentences: Anti-Intellectualism, Obscurantism and Polymorphous Perversity
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sociological Inquiry
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0038-0245,1475-682X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682x.2008.00249.x