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Research for this paper was funded by the Charles University Research Centre programs UNCE/ HUM/028 (Peace Research Center Prague/Faculty of Social Sciences) and PROGRES Q18.
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Notes
[1] We collected the data between September 17-19, 2020 in the Netherlands (1,603 respondents in total) and between September 22-28, 2020 in Germany (1,352 respondents in total). We weighted the data to make our sample representative of age, gender, education, geographic location, and voter recall of the last parliamentary election.
