Activating the countryside: Rural power, the power of the rural and the making of rural politics

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 205-224

  Bell, Michael M ^a   Lloyd, Sarah E ^a   Vatovec, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL RELATIONS; RURAL AREA; RURAL POLITICS;

EID: 77954733817     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2010.00512.x     Document Type: Article

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