Postcommunist legacies, values, and behavior

Comparative Politics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 379-399

  Pop Eleches, Grigore ^a   Tucker, Joshua A ^a  

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EID: 80052688016     PISSN: 00104159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5129/001041511796301588     Document Type: Review

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13. Examples include the functioning and consolidation of democracy (see Mishler and Rose), the successful conduct of economic policies [see M. S Weatherford, "Economic Stagflation and Public Support for the Political System," British Journal of Political Science, 14 (April 1984): 187-205],
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27. Pop-Eleches, 2008.
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