Tax payments, democracy and rent seeking administrators: Common-pool resource management, power relations and conflicts among the Kotoko, Musgum, Fulbe and Choa Arab in the Waza-Logone floodplain (Cameroon)

African Social Studies Series

Volumn 22, Issue , 2010, Pages 121-170

  Fokou, Gilbert ^a  

^a Institute of Sahel ^*  (Mali)

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