Dictators as Founding Fathers? The Role of Constitutions Under Autocracy

Economics and Politics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 279-306

  Albertus, Michael ^a   Menaldo, Victor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL SYSTEM; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

LATIN AMERICA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84867466498     PISSN: 09541985     EISSN: 14680343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0343.2012.00402.x     Document Type: Article

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