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How do some dictatorships become institutionalized ruled-based systems, while others
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped
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In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources
vary across localities, districts and farming regions. These differences produce patterned …

Unprecedented street protests brought down Mubarak's government and ushered in an era
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