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What Is Known About Losing Political Office?

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John Keane, the widely respected writer and academic, qualifies Enoch Powell’s much quoted observation that,

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Roberts, J. (2017). What Is Known About Losing Political Office?. In: Losing Political Office. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39702-3_3

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