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Constraints and Opportunities: Prospects for Democratization in Paraguay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Diego Abente
Diego Abente*
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Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
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With But Few Exceptions (O'Donnell, 1984; Whitehead, 1986; Carleton and Stohl, 1987), the literature on regime change and consolidation has generally stressed the analysis of domestic variables in the larger countries (O'Donnell, Schmitter, and Whitehead, 1986; Drake and Silva, 1986; Baloyra, 1987; Lopez and Stohl, 1987; and Malloy and Seligson, 1987). The adoption of this approach is understandable because most of the literature extant focuses on large countries in which the impact of international factors is, arguably, less salient. However, this is not necessarily true in all cases. Smaller countries, such as Paraguay, are bound to be strongly affected by external variables, and, therefore, their examination becomes a task both more urgent and of greater importance.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , Spring 1988 , pp. 73 - 104
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Copyright © University of Miami 1988

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