Constitutional engineering and the transition to democracy in Post-Cold War Africa

Independent Review

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 501-517

  Mbaku, John Mukum ^a  

^a WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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