Theory in Pursuit of Practice

Issue Date July 1997
Volume 8
Issue 3
Page Numbers 171-76
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A review of The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions, by Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman.

About the Author

Thomas J. Biersteker is Henry R. Luce Professor of Transnational Organizations and director of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.

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