Dangers and Dilemmas of Democracy

Issue Date April 1994
Volume 5
Issue 2
Page Numbers 57-74
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About the Author

Philippe C. Schmitter, professor emeritus in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, previously taught at the University of Chicago and Stanford University. He is the coeditor (with Guillermo O’Donnell and Laurence Whitehead) of the seminal four-volume series Transitions from Authoritarian Rule.

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