Read the sentence. As Carl Becker pointed out during the rise of European fascism after World War I, for democracy to prosper, it needs “a certain measure of economic security” (Becker 1932). How should the citation in this sentence be corrected to adhere to MLA format?

MLA in-text citations generally use the author’s last name and the page number, not the publication year. Since Carl Becker is already named in the sentence, the citation should give the relevant page number in parentheses, such as (12), rather than (Becker 1932). Therefore, the correction is to replace the year with the page number.

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