The Hybrid Regimes of Central America

Issue Date July 1995
Volume 6
Issue 3
Page Numbers 72-86
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About the Author

Terry Lynn Karl is professor of political science at Stanford University, director of its Center for Latin American Studies, and a senior fellow at the Institute for International Studies. She is the author of The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States (1997).

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