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How the Pathology Became Tangled: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Liberal Explanation of Poverty since the 1960s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2017

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Clarkson College
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Symposium: Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s America: The Legacies of a Professor–Politician
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 374 - 378
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2017 

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