Caveat Emptor: The Construction of Nonprofit Consumer Watchdog Organizations
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in American Journal of Sociology
- Vol. 103 (4) , 912-961
- https://doi.org/10.1086/231293
Abstract
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