Politically allocated land rights and the geography of electoral violence: The case of Kenya in the 1990s

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1311-1342

  Boone, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; elections; Kenya; land; property

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053641415     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414011407465     Document Type: Article

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