'Well, what can you expect?': Donor officials' apologetics for hybrid regimes in Africa

Democratization

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 512-534

  Brown, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Authoritarianism; Democratization; Elections; Foreign aid donor; Hybrid regime; Illiberal democracy; Kenya; Malawi; Rwanda

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953285476     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2011.553368     Document Type: Article

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