Ricochet: How Elite Discourse Politicizes Racial and Ethnic Identities

Political Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 155-180

  Pérez, Efrén O ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Latino politics; Racial and ethnic politics; Social identity theory (SIT); Survey experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890418441     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: 15736687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-013-9262-0     Document Type: Article

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