Identifying deliberation in social movement assemblies: Challenges of comparative participant observation

Journal of Public Deliberation

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Haug, Christoph ^a   Teune, Simon ^a  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assembly; Comparison; Deliberation; Discourse; Participant observation; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049125633     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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