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Recent Venezuelan Political Studies: A Return to Third World Realities

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STRONG PARTIES AND LAME DUCKS: PRESIDENTIAL PARTYARCHY AND FACTIONALISM IN VENEZUELA. By CoppedgeMichael. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994. Pp. 241. $45.00 cloth.)

LESSONS OF THE VENEZUELAN EXPERIENCE. Edited by GoodmanLouis W., FormanJohanna Mendelson, NaímMoisés et al. (Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. 420. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.)

DEMOCRACY FOR THE PRIVILEGED: CRISIS AND TRANSITION IN VENEZUELA. By HillmanRichard S. (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1994. Pp. 198. $36.50 cloth.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Steve Ellner*
Affiliation:
Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela
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Copyright © 1997 by the University of Texas Press

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The author is grateful for critical comments from Susan Berglund, Dick Parker, and Ralph Van Roy.

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