Extricating the state: The move to competitive capture in post-communist Bulgaria

Europe - Asia Studies

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-95

  Barnes, Andrew ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ELECTION; LIBERALIZATION; POLITICAL CHANGE; POLITICAL REFORM;

BULGARIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547425761     PISSN: 09668136     EISSN: 14653427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09668130601072688     Document Type: Article

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