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Papua New Guinea: Disorderly Democracy or Dysfunctional State?

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May, R.J. (2006). Papua New Guinea: Disorderly Democracy or Dysfunctional State?. In: Rumley, D., Forbes, V.L., Griffin, C. (eds) Australia’s Arc of Instability. The GeoJournal Library, vol 82. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3826-7_10

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