Divestment dynamics: Mobilizing, shaming, and changing the rules

Social Research

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1015-1037

  Seidman, Gay W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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