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ISBN: | 9781400870042 1400870046 0691075476 9780691075471
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Earlier version presented as the author's thesis, Yale. Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277). Print version record.
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Summary: | Venezuela has had a long and bloody history of military dictatorships. Yet, since 1958, it has developed one of the few effective, competitive democracies in Latin America. To explain this transformation Daniel H. Levine analyzes the development of modern mass-based political parties with pervasive organizations and commanding strong loyalties; the changing structure and content of social and political conflict; and the gradual emergence of common norms governing political behavior. This book does not pretend to be a general survey of Venezuelan politics. Rather, it is an attempt to understa.
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Other form: | Print version: Levine, Daniel H. Conflict and political change in Venezuela. [Princeton, N.J.] : Princeton University Press, [1973]
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