Uruguay 2023: Security as a Persistent Challenge and the Decline of Non-Policy Politics as a Political Asset

Inés Fynn Marguery; Verónica Pérez Bentancur; Lucía Tiscornia

doi:10.4067/s0718-090x2024005000108

Uruguay 2023: Security as a Persistent Challenge and the Decline of Non-Policy Politics as a Political Asset

Título traducido de la contribución: Uruguay 2023: la seguridad como un desafío persistente y el declive del non-policy politics como un activo político

Inés Fynn Marguery, Verónica Pérez Bentancur, Lucía Tiscornia

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Título traducido de la contribución	Uruguay 2023: la seguridad como un desafío persistente y el declive del non-policy politics como un activo político
Idioma original	Inglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)	441-462
Número de páginas	22
Publicación	Revista de Ciencia Politica
Volumen	44
N.º	2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.4067/s0718-090x2024005000108
Estado	Publicada - 1 ago. 2024

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