The big pattern of democracy: A study of the Gastil index

Democracy, Freedom and Coercion: A Law and Economics Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 103-129

  Paldam, Martin ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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