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Research ArticleIII. Political Participation and Partisanship
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Latino Electoral Participation: Variations on Demographics and Ethnicity

Jan Leighley, Jonathan Nagler
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences June 2016, 2 (3) 148-164; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.3.08
Jan Leighley
aProfessor of political science at American University
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Jonathan Nagler
bProfessor of politics at New York University and co-principal investigator of the NYU Social Media and Political Participation Laboratory
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    • LATINO TURNOUT: U.S.-BORN AND FOREIGN-BORN
    • DATA AND SAMPLES
    • THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF TURNOUT AND ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION
    • MULTIVARIABLE MODELS OF TURNOUT AND NONVOTING PARTICIPATION
    • IF NOT—OR ONLY—DEMOGRAPHICS, THEN WHAT?
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