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Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Comparative Analysis and Critique Edited by Helena Alviar GARCÍA and Günter FRANKENBERG Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019 xii + 386 pp. Hardcover: £90.00 eBook: £22/$31 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117852

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Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Comparative Analysis and Critique Edited by Helena Alviar GARCÍA and Günter FRANKENBERG Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019 xii + 386 pp. Hardcover: £90.00 eBook: £22/$31 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117852

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2020

Ngoc Son BUI
Ngoc Son BUI*
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Asian Journal of Comparative Law , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , July 2020 , pp. 187 - 190
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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18. ibid 440.