Assessing the quality of democracy: Freedom, competitiveness and participation in eighteen Latin American countries

Democratization

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 85-100

  Altman, David ^a   Pérez Linán, Aníbal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL RIGHTS; COMPETITIVENESS; DEMOCRACY; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 0036277029     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/714000256     Document Type: Article

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