Expanding the use of experiments on civic behavior: Experiments with local government as a research partner

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 628, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 148-164

  Cotterill, Sarah ^a   Richardson, Liz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Civic behavior; Difficulties of implementation; Field experiments; Local government

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649244369     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716209351521     Document Type: Article

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