Challenging the Conventional Wisdom

Issue Date October 1994
Volume 5
Issue 4
Page Numbers 104-18
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About the Author

Barbara Geddes is associate professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. A specialist in political institutions and structural reform, she is the author of Politician’s Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America (1994). She is currently working on a book on methodological issues in comparative politics.

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