NGO research program: A collective action perspective

Policy Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 221-240

  Johnson, Erica ^a   Prakash, Aseem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective action; NGOs

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION; TYPOLOGY;

EID: 35648972051     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11077-007-9043-x     Document Type: Article

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