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Book Chapter

Indices of political instability

CMI authors:
Ivar Kolstad

Thematic research group:
Poverty Reduction

Ivar Kolstad (2007)

in William A. Darity Jr.: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Edition 2. Farmington Hills: Macmillan Reference USA

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