Blessed are the organized: Grassroots democracy in America

Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-346

  Stout, Jeffrey ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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