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Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions: A New Data Set 2014 2026 2018 2022 673
  1. Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions: A New Data Set (2014)
    Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright et al. Perspectives on Politics

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