Powers - Mengist - and peasants in rural Ethiopia: The May 2005 elections

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 253-273

  Lefort, René ^a  

^a NONE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ELECTION; ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL POWER; RURAL AREA; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL POLITICS;

AFRICA; AMHARA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34249048866     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X07002534     Document Type: Article

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