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5 - Caretaker conventions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2015

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Jennifer Menzies  and
Anne Tiernan
Edited by
Brian Galligan  and
Scott Brenton
Brian Galligan
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
Scott Brenton
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
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Constitutional Conventions in Westminster Systems
Controversies, Changes and Challenges
 , pp. 91 - 115
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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