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Healthy Skepticism or Corrosive Cynicism? New Insights into the Roots and Results of Latino Political Cynicism
Melissa R. Michelson
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences June 2016, 2 (3) 60-77; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.3.04
Melissa R. Michelson
aProfessor of political science at Menlo College

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Melissa R. Michelson
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Jun 2016, 2 (3) 60-77; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2016.2.3.04
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