Making market democracies? the contingent loyalties of post-privatization elites in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Serbia

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 740-769

  Gould, John A ^a   Sickner, Carl ^b  

^a University of Colorado College of Nursing   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Azerbaijan; Democracy; Georgia; Markets; Postcommunism; Privatization; Serbia

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049129386     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290802408923     Document Type: Article

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