Diffusion Processes within and across Movements

The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 294-310

  Soule, Sarah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion process; Innovation; Protests; Social movements; Theoretical developments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878820353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999103.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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