Voice-In, Voice-Out: Constituent Participation and Nonprofit Advocacy

Nonprofit Policy Forum

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Guo, Chao ^a   Saxton, Gregory D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

advocacy; nonprofit organizations; participation; representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85126558888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21543348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/2154-3348.1000     Document Type: Article

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