Democracy and diversionary military intervention: Reassessing regime type and the diversionary hypothesis

International Studies Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-44

  Pickering, Jeffrey ^a   Kisangani, Emizet F ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DEMOCRACY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MILITARY INTERVENTION; POLITICAL POWER;

EID: 15044357919     PISSN: 00208833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0020-8833.2005.00333.x     Document Type: Article

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