Violent protest and heterogeneous diffusion processes: The spread of U.S. racial rioting from 1964 to 1971

Mobilization

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 289-321

  Myers, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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