The kazakh neopatrimonial regime: Balancing uncertainties among the family oligarchs and technocrats

Demokratizatsiya

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 345-370

  Peyrouse, Sebastien ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; PATRON-CLIENT RELATIONS; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

KAZAKHSTAN;

EID: 84870941616     PISSN: 10746846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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