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7 - Elections in “Democratic” Bangladesh

from Part II - Forms and Sources of Instability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2015

Mark Tushnet
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
Madhav Khosla
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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Unstable Constitutionalism
Law and Politics in South Asia
, pp. 192 - 230
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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