Democracy promotion and China: blocker or bystander?

Democratization

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 400-418

  Chen, Dingding ^a   Kinzelbach, Katrin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b Global Public Policy Institute   (Germany)

^c CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

autocracy; China; democracy; Hong Kong; human rights; Myanmar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930570878     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2014.999322     Document Type: Article

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