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How to run an efficient political machine: the billionaire Andrej Babiš and his political-business project Cover

How to run an efficient political machine: the billionaire Andrej Babiš and his political-business project

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|Aug 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2019-0002 | Journal eISSN: 2787-9038 | Journal ISSN: 1801-3422
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