The deliberative potential of civil society organizations: framing hydraulic fracturing in New York

Policy Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 249-266

  Dodge, Jennifer ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

agonistic democracy; Civil society; civil society organizations; deliberative democracy; discursive democracy; environmental policy; environmental politics; fracking; framing; hydraulic fracturing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940905416     PISSN: 01442872     EISSN: 14701006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2015.1065967     Document Type: Article

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