Electoral Institutions, Ethnopolitical Cleavages, and Party Systems in Africa's Emerging Democracies

American Political Science Review

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 379-390

  Mozaffar, Shaheen ^a,b   Scarritt, James R ^c   Galaich, Glen ^c,d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d University of Colorado at Boulder ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0141797473     PISSN: 00030554     EISSN: 15375943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003055403000753     Document Type: Article

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