Level of Development and Democracy Latin American Exceptionalism, 1945-1996

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1031-1067

  Mainwaring, Scott ^a   Pérez Liñán, Aníbal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Democracy; Latin America; Level of development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142169366     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414003257068     Document Type: Review

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