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What Americans know about politics and why it matters
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Metadata
- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1996-09-01
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 01
- Pages
- 34-0582-34-0582
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
- OpenAlex
- W4300540376
- Cited by
- 2,050
- References
- 0
- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- What Americans know about politics and why it matters. (1996). Choice Reviews Online. https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.34-0582
Data sources
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Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
