Professor Kling of Washington University in St. Louis reviews the history, accomplishments, and future of comparative political research on Latin America. What scholars choose to study and how they go at it are described. Real progress in Latin American studies, says the author, depends on blending the traditional and modern versions of area studies.
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Frank Tannenbaum, "A Note on Latin American Politics,"Pol. Science Q., Volume LVIII, Number 3 (September, 1943), p. 415.
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For examples, see: Gabriel A. Almond and James S. Coleman, The Politics of the -Developing Areas (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1960); and Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba, The Civic Culture (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1963).
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