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The Past Need Not Be Prologue: Why Pessimism about Civic Education Is Premature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Stephen Earl Bennett
Stephen Earl Bennett*
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University of Cincinnati
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , December 1999 , pp. 755 - 757
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