Elections under authoritarianism

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 12, Issue , 2009, Pages 403-422

  Gandhi, Jennifer ^a   Lust Okar, Ellen ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dictatorship; Electoral behavior; Institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651231859     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.060106.095434     Document Type: Article

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