Institutional Choice and Democratic Consolidation: The Experience of the Russian Successor States, 1918-1939

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 307-320

  Metcalf, Lee Kendall ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Proportional representation; Russia; Successor states; World War I

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRATISATION; HISTORICAL STUDY; POLITICAL HISTORY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

USSR;

EID: 0031414708     PISSN: 0967067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0967-067x(97)00010-x     Document Type: Article

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