Mobilization and threat: Campaigns against welfare privatization in four cities

Sociological Focus

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 287-309

  Reese, Ellen ^a   Geidraitis, Vincent ^b   Vega, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

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EID: 34247675206     PISSN: 00380237     EISSN: 21621128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2005.10571270     Document Type: Article

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