Liberalizing event or lethal episode?: An empirical assessment of how national elections affect the suppression of political and civil liberties

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 321-340

  Davenport, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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