The Role of Elites

Issue Date January 1994
Volume 5
Issue 1
Page Numbers 144-46
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A review of Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe, edited by John Higley and Richard Gunther.

About the Author

Scott Mainwaring is Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.

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