Author: Palle Svensson | Journal of Democracy

Palle Svensson is associate professor of political science at the University of Aarhus and has advised on and monitored elections in African countries. An earlier version of this essay was presented at the Nordic Political Science Association’s Triennial Conference in Helsinki in August 1996.

July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3

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