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Status, Symbols, and Politics: A Theory of Symbolic Status Politics

Tali Mendelberg
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2022, 8 (6) 50-68; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.6.03
Tali Mendelberg
aJohn Work Garrett Professor of Politics at Princeton University and director of the Program on Inequality at the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, United States
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