An effective measure of institutional engineering? Ethnic party bans in Africa

Democratization

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 666-686

  Moroff, Anika ^a   Basedau, Matthias ^a  

^a GIGA GERMAN INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL AND AREA STUDIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conflict; Democracy; Party ban; Party regulation; Sub saharan africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954791085     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2010.491191     Document Type: Article

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