Toward Consolidated Democracies

Issue Date April 1996
Volume 7
Issue 2
Page Numbers 14-33
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About the Authors

Juan J. Linz

Juan J. Linz (1926–2013) was Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political and Social Science at Yale University.

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Alfred Stepan

Alfred Stepan is the founding director of Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR), and author (with Juan J. Linz) of Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe.

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