Building post-communist states: Political corruption and strategies of party formation in Estonia and Latvia

Building Democracy and Civil Society East of the Elbe: Essays in Honour of Edmund Mokrzycki

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 288-305

  Bennich Björkman, Li ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84905792596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203027837     Document Type: Chapter

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