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Symposium - Prime Ministers and Party Governments in Central and Eastern Europe

Coping with the new party challenge: patterns of prime ministerial survival in Croatia and Slovenia

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Pages 417-431 | Received 23 Sep 2020, Accepted 05 Jan 2021, Published online: 20 Jan 2021

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