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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
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    • THE IMPORTANCE OF POLITICAL TRUST
    • LATINO CYNICISM AMID THE 2006 IMMIGRATION MARCHES
    • LATINO POLITICAL POWER AND THE 2012 ELECTION
    • DATA AND HYPOTHESES
    • RESULTS
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    • BROADER TRENDS IN TRUST IN GOVERNMENT
    • TRUST AND POLITICAL EFFICACY
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