Venezuela Falters

Issue Date July 1995
Volume 6
Issue 3
Page Numbers 168-72
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A review of Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partyarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela, by Michael Coppedge and Democracy for the Privileged: Crisis and Transition in Venezuela, by Richard S. Hillman.

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