Maneuvering with the Burden of Proof: Confrontational Strategies in Dealing with Political Accountability

Corina Andone

doi:10.2478/slgr-2014-0004

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Maneuvering with the Burden of Proof: Confrontational Strategies in Dealing with Political Accountability

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

Volume 36 (2014): Issue 1 (March 2014)

By: Corina Andone

Open Access

|Apr 2014

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