Latin America’s Imperiled Progress: Chavez and the End of “Partyarchy” in Venezuela

Issue Date July 1999
Volume 10
Issue 3
Page Numbers 64-77
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About the Author

Jennifer McCoy is Regent’s Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University, nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and visiting researcher at Koç University in Istanbul. She is coeditor, with Murat Somer, of “Polarizing Polities: A Global Threat to Democracy,” a special volume of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2019).

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