Latino electoral participation: Variations on demographics and ethnicity

RSF

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 148-164

  Leighley, Jan ^a   Nagler, Jonathan ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2012 presidential election; Country of origin; Immigrants; Latino; Party contact; Political participation; Socioeconomic status; Voter turnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050856945     PISSN: 23778253     EISSN: 23778261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2016.2.3.07     Document Type: Article

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