Latin America’s Emerging Local Politics

Issue Date April 1994
Volume 5
Issue 2
Page Numbers 105-16
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About the Author

Jonathan Fox is associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This essay expands on presentations made to the Ford Foundation’s Latin America and Caribbean Program (April 1993) and the Inter-American Dialogue (September 1993).

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