DIVIDED WE FAIL: ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, SOCIAL MISTRUST, AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN LATIN AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES
Although it is well-established, at least since Aristotle, that high levels of economic inequality produce political instability, the underlying mechanism by which this link works has been largely underspecified. By placing ordinary citizens at the center of the causal chain, my dissertation seeks t...
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VANDERBILT
2009
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Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-12232008-105023/ |