Latin America’s Critical Elections: Five Scenarios for Mexico

Issue Date July 1994
Volume 5
Issue 3
Page Numbers 57-71
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About the Author

Denise Dresser is professor of political science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a consultant for the United Nations Development Program. She has been a visiting research fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California at San Diego.

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