The State You See : How Government Visibility Creates Political Distrust and Racial Inequality
The State You See uncovers a racial gap in the way the American government appears in people's lives. It makes it clear that public policy changes over the last fifty years have driven all Americans to distrust the government that they see in their lives, even though Americans of different races are...
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University of Michigan Press
2023
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