Opportunistic political cycles: Test in a young democracy setting

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1301-1338

  Akhmedov, Akhmed ^a   Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina ^a  

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EID: 10444261214     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0033553042476206     Document Type: Article

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