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The Political Implications of Economic Lives: Listening to AVP Respondents’ Perceptions of Efficacy

Katherine Cramer, Elizabeth Youngling, Clinton Rooker
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2024, 10 (4) 104-119; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.05
Katherine Cramer
aNatalie C. Holton Chair of Letters & Science and the Virginia Sapiro Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
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Elizabeth Youngling
bData and analytics manager for learning and impact at the Chicago Community Trust, United States
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Clinton Rooker
cPhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
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