Political order and one-party rule

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 13, Issue , 2010, Pages 123-143

  Magaloni, Beatriz ^a   Kricheli, Ruth ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocracy; Dominant party; Elections; Single party; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952922729     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.031908.220529     Document Type: Article

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