... of the national security doctrine; the persistence of intelligence networks, paramilitary groups, and military agencies inherited from the “Proceso de Reorganización Nacional”; and the ongoing antidemocratic attitudes and sentiments voiced by many military personnel and their civilian allies (such as elements...

... is simple: the corporate-authoritarian ethos that has permeated Argentina since the days of independence continues to frame political-economic conflicts in zero-sum terms, making it rational for contending social groups to pursue antidemocratic strategies of self-satisfaction based on egotistical...

... attention to the dubious utility of promoting democracy through undemocratic means or through backing antidemocratic allies; but is the United States, on balance, even for limited periods, really in the business of exporting democracy? If trying in vain to promote democracy and trying with greater success...

... Dictatorship and the 1964 Coup , Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta discusses the process of this return, showing how temporal distance from the dictatorship did not result in a distancing from the antidemocratic discourses that characterized that era. The author claims that after 1985 the Brazilian state's policy...

... popular support was used by the revolutionary leadership to build an antidemocratic, Soviet-style society, but it was real. This book is based on the erroneous premise that before the overthrow of the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship on January 1, 1959, there was “an already prepared, already...

... with antidemocratic political forces, including military repression. The second, which he favors, is characterized as much weaker politically and as often repressed by the first-named approach (hence the “conflictive” notion of identity suggested in the title). It has relied on popular, majoritarian notions of social...

...’ anticommunist, Cold War doctrine of national security as elaborated after World War II and promoted by the military training of Latin American officers at American bases (onshore and offshore) resulted in antidemocratic, repressive regimes that oppress their peoples. However much one may be inclined to agree...

... the antidemocratic characteristics of the ruling elite, but admires their “pragmatic and realistic” approach to politics, their sensitivity to the needs of Argentina at this time, and their Victorian belief in progress. Pellegrini, with ideas more advanced than those of his contemporaries, could only govern “under...

... and independent—the First Republic did emancipate the Brazilian clergy from seventy years’ enslavement. Nevertheless, for being atheistic, antireligious, antidemocratic, and antijuridical, it sacrificed the true aspirations of the Brazilian people. To take the specific case of “black religion” in Bahia (included...

... and nepotism are put in a realistic perspective as are foreign influences through cultural and economic dependency. More should have been said, however, about United States aid programs that serve to sustain in power antidemocratic regimes that routinely torture their citizens. Yet Wesson is no apologist...

... the extent to which the experience of Latin American militaries paralleled each other into the modern era. For example, in his section on foreign military missions, Loveman carefully explains why military modernization was accompanied by the armed forces’ increasing use of apolitical and often antidemocratic...

... democratization. Interestingly enough, Vergara argues that the state reform needed to reconcile growth with democracy requires elaborate agreements.” Bolivia’s experience, however, shows that “elaborate agreements (what Gamarra would call “coalitions”) also have antidemocratic components. For Bolivia, Eduardo...

... have applauded the antidemocratic, anticapitalist, anti-Yankee ideologies of their Latin American counterparts. Some generations hence, historians and social scientists looking back at the Western Hemisphere during the period from the Cuban Revolution through the end of the twentieth century...

... experience because it was antidemocratic (as he defines the term), not because it was inconsistent or particularly dishonest. He would not have liked it any better had it shown its ‘true colors’ from the beginning.” Touché ! ...

... criticism of Perón” as authoritarian and antidemocratic in the name of a “democracy” that scarcely existed before Perón (p. 52). Blanksten’s analysis of Peronism is rejected because Blanksten reflects the views of the U.S. Department of State. It is also difficult to review this volume from the point...

... that it successfully allowed those republics to function. Sabato then directly addresses the still current historiographical debate over interpretations of Latin America as violent and antidemocratic. The fourth chapter moves on to discuss public opinion, how it worked and how it was disseminated from different...

... in New England — the “cradle” of American democratic culture — as well as in the South, where the impoverished white working class was trapped by the oligarchs who controlled Southern life. The South’s antidemocratic culture of political corruption and aggressive disenfranchisement of both poor whites...

... in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and certain other Latin American countries where incipient trade unionism grew up in violence and evolved into largely antidemocratic and highly politicized forms. Of course, violence between labor and management did occur in Colombia as well as elsewhere in the hemisphere; land...

... Collier (ed. 1979) and Alfred Stepan (1971, 1973), without adding very much that is new. This is particularly true with respect to the political and economic circumstances leading up to the establishment of the “new military” regimes in the Southern Cone after 1964, the antipolitical, antidemocratic...

... the country “poised as never before for democratic consolidation” (p. 210). It lacks a strong traditional landed oligarchy, enjoys a moderate level of development, apparently has said goodbye to antidemocratic militarism, and displays “increasingly institutionalized and vibrant” political institutions (p. 206...