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Optimum electoral areas: should Europe adopt a single election day?

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  • Khalid Sekkat

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  • André Sapir & Khalid Sekkat, 1999. "Optimum electoral areas: should Europe adopt a single election day?," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/7336, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
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