Subject to negotiation: The mechanisms behind co-optation and corporate reform

Social Problems

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 480-500

  Trumpy, Alexa J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Co optation; Corporate campaign; Event structure analysis; Framing; Neoliberalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549095346     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2008.55.4.480     Document Type: Article

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