German Prosecutors and the Rechtsstaat

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5 - German Prosecutors and the Rechtsstaat

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2017

Shawn Boyne

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Máximo Langer and

David Alan Sklansky

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Máximo Langer: Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
David Alan Sklansky: Affiliation:
Stanford University, California

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Information: Prosecutors and Democracy
A Cross-National Study
, pp. 109 - 137

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