Post-communist informal networking: Blat in the south Caucasus

Demokratizatsiya

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 89-111

  Aliyev, Huseyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; DEMOCRACY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; KINSHIP; POLITICS; POST-COMMUNISM;

ARMENIA [WEST ASIA]; AZERBAIJAN; CAUCASUS; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC);

EID: 84873656408     PISSN: 10746846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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