Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America Dictators, Despots, and Tyrants

Name: Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America Dictators, Despots, and Tyrants
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ISBN: 9780742537392

ISBN-10: 0742537390

ISBN-13: 9780742537392

Edition: 2005

Authors: Paul H. Lewis

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This thoughtful text describes how Latin America's authoritarian culture has been and continues to be reflected in a variety of governments, from the near-anarchy of the early regional bosses (caudillos), to all-powerful personalistic dictators or oligarchic machines, to contemporary mass-movement regimes like Castro's Cuba or Peron's Argentina. Taking a student-friendly chronological approach, Paul Lewis also analyzes how the internal dynamics of each historical phase of the region's development led to the next. He describes how dominant ideologies of the period were used to shape, and justify, each regime's power structure. Balanced yet cautious about the future of democracy in the…

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List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.07" wide x 9.11" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Paul H. Lewis is professor of political science at Tulane University. His previous books include The Crisis of Argentine Capitalism and Paraguay under Stroessner.



Abbreviations and Acronyms


Introduction: Authoritarianism in Latin America



The Undemocratic Culture



Three Deviant Regimes



National Dictators



Liberal Oligarchies



The Masses Enter Politics



Corporatism



Tyranny and Succession



The Marxists



Counterrevolutionaries



The Prospects for Democracy


For Further Reading


Index


About the Author