Democrats and Bureaucrats

Issue Date Summer 1991
Volume 2
Issue 3
Page Numbers 111-14
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A review of Democracy in Botswana: The Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Gaborone, 1-5 August 1988, edited by John Holm and Patrick Molutsi.

About the Author

Stephen John Stedman is assistant professor of African studies and comparative politics at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and the editor of Botswana: The Political Economy of Development and Democracy (1992).

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