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An Epidemic of Cheating?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Donald Chisholm
Donald Chisholm*
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 264 - 272
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1992

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My gratitude to Joel Aberbach and Richard Sklar for their helpful comments on an earlier version. Assistant Dean Melora Sundt of the UCLA Office of the Dean of Students offered many useful ideas and also made their research files available to me, which expedited my work on this essay considerably.

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