Cabinet stability in post-communist central Europe

Party Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 123-150

  Nikolenyi, Csaba ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cabinet stability; Central Europe; Dominant and central players

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642392077     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068804040497     Document Type: Article

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