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How Americans Judge: A Topology of Moral Communities

James Chu, Seungwon Lee
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2024, 10 (5) 141-164; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.5.06
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aAssistant professor of sociology at Columbia University, United States
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