Electoral corruption

The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 395-409

  Birch, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4135/9780857021083.n22     Document Type: Chapter

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