Does Smallness Enhance Power-Sharing? Explaining Suriname’s Multiethnic Democracy
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عنوان ژورنال: Ethnopolitics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1744-9057,1744-9065
DOI: 10.1080/17449057.2019.1590078