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² A political pact is defined as “an explicit, but not always publicly explicated or justified, agreement among a select set of actors which seek to define (or, better, to redefine) rules governing the exercise of power on the basis of mutual guarantees for the ‘vital interests’ of those entering into it.” GUILLERMO O'DONNEIX & PHILIPPE C. SCHMITTER, TRANSITIONS FROM AUTHORITARIAN RULE: TENTATIVE CONCLUSIONS ABOUT UNCERTAIN DEMOCRACIES 37 (1986).

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