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In the Public but Not the Electorate: The “Civic Status Gap” in the United States

James A. McCann, Michael Jones-Correa
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences June 2016, 2 (3) 1-19; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.3.01
James A. McCann
aProfessor of political science at Purdue University
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bProfessor of government and Robert J. Katz Chair of the Department of Government at Cornell University
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