A nation of organizers: The institutional origins of civic voluntarism in the United States

American Political Science Review

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 527-546

  Skocpol, Theda ^a   Ganz, Marshall ^b   Munson, Ziad ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034395731     PISSN: 00030554     EISSN: 15375943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2585829     Document Type: Article

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