Personal influence, collective rationality, and mass political action

American Political Science Review

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 885-903

  Finkel, Steven E ^a   Muller, Edward N ^b   Opp, Karl Dieter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 84973988926     PISSN: 00030554     EISSN: 15375943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1962065     Document Type: Article

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