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January/February 2013

Democracy in Latin America

Roberto Gargarella on democracy in Latin America, Pedro Salazar Ugarte on demographics in Mexico, and Leonardo Avritzer on Brazil’s direct democracy Plus, Claude Fischer on online dating and monogamy; Elizabeth Hand on women in fiction, and more.

 

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