Unification and secession: group size and 'escape from lock-in'

Kyklos

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 171-196

  Yarbrough, Beth V ^a   Yarbrough, Robert M ^a  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CHANGE; NATION STATE; POLITICAL REFORM; SECESSION; UNIFICATION;

CHINA; CZECH REPUBLIC; GERMANY; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0031873595     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6435.00044     Document Type: Article

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