Selective use of political opportunity: a case of environmental protest in rural China

Journal of Chinese Governance

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 91-105

  Deng, Yanhua ^a   Benney, Jonathan ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

(mis)framing; Environmental protest; hard political opportunity; soft political opportunity; symbolic political opportunity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018523133     PISSN: 23812346     EISSN: 23812354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1286791     Document Type: Article

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