The missing link between structure and agency: Outline of an evolutionary approach to social movements

Mobilization

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-35

  Koopmans, Ruud ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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