Know(ing) Your Power: Risk Society, Astroturf Campaigns, and the Battle over the Red Rock Coal-Fired Plant

Sociological Quarterly

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 125-151

  Mix, Tamara L ^a   Waldo, Kristin G ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84920586806     PISSN: 00380253     EISSN: 15338525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tsq.12065     Document Type: Article

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