When can external actors influence democratization? Leverage, linkages, and gatekeeper elites

Democratization

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 716-742

  Tolstrup, Jakob ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Democratization; Elites; External actors; Leverage; Linkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879710555     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2012.666066     Document Type: Article

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