Federation as a method of ethnic conflict regulation

From Power Sharing to Democracy: Post-Conflict Institutions in Ethnically Divided Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 263-296

  McGarry, John ^a   O'leary, Brendan ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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