Information Cascades and Revolutionary Regime Transitions

Economic Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 553, 2011, Pages 763-792

  Ellis, Christopher J ^a   Fender, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MODELING; POLITICAL CHANGE;

EID: 79957950109     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02401.x     Document Type: Article

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