Measuring Civil Society: Perspectives on Afro-Centrism

Voluntas

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-25

  Fowler, Alan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Civic agency; Civil society; Endogenous research; Measurement

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; STATE BUILDING;

AFRICA;

EID: 84856442034     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-011-9239-8     Document Type: Article

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