Regime legacies and democratization: Explaining variance in the level of democracy in Latin America, 1978-2004

Working Paper of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Volumn , Issue 354, 2008, Pages 1-31

  Mainwaring, Scott ^a   Pérez Liñán, Aníbal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; DEMOCRACY; DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION; DEMOCRATIZATION; POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT; POLITICAL HISTORY;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 76849091525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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