The three worlds of post-communism: Revisiting deep and proximate explanations

Democratization

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 298-322

  Møller, Jørgen ^a   Skaaning, Svend Erik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Causality; Configurational methods; Deep and proximate explanations; Democracy; Post communism

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650133545     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510340902732565     Document Type: Article

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