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Shortcuts to Liberty

Issue Date Spring 1991
Volume 2
Issue 2
Page Numbers 114-17
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A review of To Craft Democracies: An Essay on Democratic Transitions, by Giuseppe Di Palma.

About the Author

Nancy Bermeo is senior research fellow in politics at Nuffield College, Oxford University. 

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