Level of development and democracy: Latin American exceptionalism, 1945-1996

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between modernization and demo¬cracy for one region of the world, Latin America from 1945 to 1996, on the basis of quantitative data. We make three arguments. First, we show that the level of development had a modest impact on the likelihood of democracy in...

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Main Authors: Scott MAINWARING, Aníbal PÉREZ-LIÑÁN
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2010-10-01
Series:América Latina Hoy
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Online Access:https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-2887/article/view/7417