A review of Democracies in Development: Politics and Reform in Latin America by J. Mark Payne et al.
About the Author
Mark P. Jones is associate professor of political science at Michigan State University and a research scholar at the Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Institucional in Argentina.
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