How Context Matters? Mobilization, Political Opportunity Structures, and Nonelectoral Political Participation in Old and New Democracies

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 203-229

  Vráblíková, Kateřina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

cross national surveys; mobilization; national institutions; political opportunity structure; political participation; social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892427305     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414013488538     Document Type: Article

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