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Political Identity Convergence: On Being Latino, Becoming a Democrat, and Getting Active

Leonie Huddy, Lilliana Mason, S. Nechama Horwitz
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences June 2016, 2 (3) 205-228; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.3.11
Leonie Huddy
aProfessor of political science at Stony Brook University
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Lilliana Mason
bAssistant professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park
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S. Nechama Horwitz
cDoctoral student in political science at Stony Brook University
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