What Affects the Strength of Partisan Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Politics and Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 748-773

  Ishiyama, John ^a   Fox, Krystal ^a  

^a TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 43249173473     PISSN: 15555623     EISSN: 17471346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2006.00039.x     Document Type: Article

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