Debating the Transition Paradigm: In Partial Defense of an Evanescent “Paradigm”

Issue Date July 2002
Volume 13
Issue 3
Page Numbers 6-12
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The coauthor of the seminal work on democratic transitions sets the record straight on what the scholarly literature actually says.

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