Why some greens are more powerful than others: On destabilisation, power shifts and the democratic potential of NGOs

International Review of Sociology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 331-349

  Berlin, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Destabilisation; Global environmental politics; Logistic regression analysis; NGOs; Power; Transnational democracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449642907     PISSN: 03906701     EISSN: 14699273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03906700902833635     Document Type: Article

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