untitled 81 Performing Symbolic Politics and International Environmental Regulation Joachim Blatter Performing Symbolic Politics and International Environmental Regulation: Tracing and Theorizing a Causal Mechanism beyond Regime Theory • Joachim Blatter1 Introduction and Overview Since the 1990s,

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Explaining Foreigners’ Political Rights in the Context of Direct Democracy: A Fuzzy-Set QCA of Swiss Cantonal Popular Votes Politics and Governance (ISSN: 2183–2463) 2019, Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 410–426 DOI: 10.17645/pag.v7i2.1779 Article Explaining Foreigners’ Political Rights in the Context of

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