Missed opportunities: Social movement abeyance and public policy

Social Problems

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 187-206

  Sawyers, Traci M ^c   Meyer, David S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c University of California Irvine ^*

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EID: 0033128275     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3097252     Document Type: Article

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