NGOs as shadow pseudopublics: Grassroots community leaders' perceptions of change and continuity in Porto Alegre, Brazil

American Ethnologist

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 407-424

  Junge, Benjamin ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 84860694786     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01372.x     Document Type: Article

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