Paraguay After Stroessner: Democratizing the One-Party State

Issue Date Fall 1990
Volume 1
Issue 4
Page Numbers 49-58
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About the Author

Charles G. Gillespie is assistant professor of Latin American politics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has written widely about political parties, civil-military relations, and democratic” breakdown in various Latin American countries, and is the author of Negotiating Democracy (forthcoming), which explores comparative prospects for democratization in the Southern Cone.

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