The strategic use of referendums: Power, legitimacy, and democracy

The Strategic Use of Referendums: Power, Legitimacy, and Democracy

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-156

  Walker, Mark Clarence ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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