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Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Behind the Ballot Box: Electoral Engineering in the Arab World, Middle East Report, No. 209, Behind the Ballot Box: Authoritarian Elections and Oppositional Strategies in the Middle East (Winter, 1998), pp. 12-15+42
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