Thailand's conservative democratization

East Asia's New Democracies: Deepening, Reversal, Non-liberal Alternatives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 122-140

  Hewison, Kevin ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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