"Taking the state at its word": The arts of consentful contention in the german democratic republic

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1598-1650

  Straughn, Jeremy Brooke ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/428818     Document Type: Review

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