Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy
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Representative Democracy
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory
سال: 2007
ISSN: 2308-0914,2308-0906
DOI: 10.7227/r.11.1.14