State building and democratization in sub-saharan Africa: Forwards, backwards, or together?

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1059-1083

  Bratton, Michael ^a   Chang, Eric C C ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Democracy; Governance; Public opinion; Rule of law; State

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749820799     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414005280853     Document Type: Article

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