Clarifying Consolidation

Issue Date April 1997
Volume 8
Issue 2
Page Numbers 168-74
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A review of Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, by Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan.

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