Post-Communist Politics: On the Divergence (and/or Convergence) of East and West

Government and Opposition

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 398-433

  Bértoa, Fernando Casal ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 85011453552     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: 14777053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/gov.2013.9     Document Type: Article

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