Latin America’s Parties

Issue Date October 1996
Volume 7
Issue 4
Page Numbers 174-77
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A review of Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America, edited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully.

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Jonathan Hartlyn is professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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