An influential literature argues that corruption behaves as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Its central claim is that the individual returns to corruption are a function of the perceived corruptibility of
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Did George Floyd’s murder and its ensuing protests in the summer of 2020 produce a racial reckoning? Conventional social-science accounts, emphasizing the stability of racial attitudes, suggest such a
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