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The impact of closed and flexible candidate lists on the representation of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

By: Petr Dvořák  
Open Access
|Jun 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2023-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2787-9038 | Journal ISSN: 1801-3422
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