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Purposeful collective action in ambiguous and contested situations: exploring ‘enabling capacities’ and cross-level interplay Cover

Purposeful collective action in ambiguous and contested situations: exploring ‘enabling capacities’ and cross-level interplay

By: James Patterson  
Open Access
|Mar 2017

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.696 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
Language: English
Published on: Mar 7, 2017
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