How "civil" is civil society? Authoritarian state, partisan civil society, and the struggle for democratic development in Bangladesh

Canadian Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 425-438

  Quadir, Fahimul ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; CIVIL SOCIETY; DEMOCRATIZATION; POLITICAL CHANGE;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 0348225050     PISSN: 02255189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2003.9668930     Document Type: Article

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