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Income, Ideology, and Representation

Chris Tausanovitch
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2016, 2 (7) 33-50; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.7.03
Chris Tausanovitch
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