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Presidentialism in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Scott Mainwaring*
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University of Notre Dame
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Copyright © 1990 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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I would like to thank Maxwell Cameron, Michael Coppedge, Caroline Domingo, Leon Epstein, Juan Linz, Matthew Shugart, and J. Samuel Valenzuela for their helpful comments and suggestions.

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