State building in a rentier state: How development policies fail to promote democracy in afghanistan

Development and Change

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 501-526

  Verkoren, Willemijn ^a   Kamphuis, Bertine ^b,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; DEMOCRACY; ECONOMIC POLICY; POLICY MAKING; STATE BUILDING;

AFGHANISTAN;

EID: 84877889495     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12029     Document Type: Article

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