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Contemporary Politics Volume 16, 2010 - Issue 1: PROMOTING DEMOCRACY – PROMOTING AUTOCRACY? INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND NATIONAL POLITICAL REGIMES
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Are dictatorships returning? Revisiting the ‘democratic rollback’ hypothesis

Wolfgang Merkel Department of Democracy Research, Social Science Research Center, Berlin; Department of Political Science, Humboldt University, Berlin, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 17-31 | Published online: 24 Mar 2010

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