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Article: Canada's seraglio cities: political barriers to regional governance.
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- Canadian Journal of Sociology
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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* I wish to acknowledge the thoroughly competent assistance of Mr. Michael Wagner in data accumulation and to thank the anonymous assessors of this Journal for their thorough critiques of my work.
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