NGOization, Foreign Funding, and the Nicaraguan Civil Society

Voluntas

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 487-513

  Chahim, Dean ^a   Prakash, Aseem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Central America; Civil society; Foreign funding; NGOs; Nicaragua

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; ADVOCACY; CIVIL SOCIETY; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

NICARAGUA;

EID: 84894456167     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-012-9348-z     Document Type: Article

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