Voter Data, Democratic Inequality, and the Risk of Political Violence

Scholarship

CO-AUTHORS Douglas Spencer

PUBLISHER

Cornell Law Review

DATE

2021

Bertrall Ross

Bertrall Ross & Douglas Spencer, Voter Data, Democratic Inequality, and the Risk of Political Violence, Cornell Law Review (2021).

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