Expanding the Possibilities: Reconceptualizing Political Participation as a Toolbox

The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Harris, Fredrick C ^a   Gillion, Daniel ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Political activism; Political behavior; Political culture; Political participation; Political scientists; Sociologists; Toolbox theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960448158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199235476.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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