Ethnic party bans and institutional engineering in Nigeria

Democratization

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 730-749

  Bogaards, Matthijs ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consociationalism; Democratization; Ethnicity; Nigeria; Political parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954779280     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2010.491197     Document Type: Article

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