What is Democratic Consolidation?

Issue Date April 1998
Volume 9
Issue 2
Page Numbers 91-107
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About the Author

Andreas Schedler is professor of political science at CIDE in Mexico City. His most recent book is The Politics of Uncertainty: Sustaining and Subverting Electoral Authoritarianism (2013). At present, he is conducting public-opinion research on organized violence in Mexico.

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