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Latin American politics: a theoretical approach

2002; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 39; Issue: 08 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.39-4822

1943-5975

S Torcuato,

Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

Preface and Acknowledgments 1. The Study of Latin American Politics The Fall and Rise of Democracy Sociological Laws and Historical Processes The Program to Be Developed 2. Tensions in the Class Structure: From Social Mobilization to Autonomous Organization The Social Pyramid Social Mobilization and Mobilizationism Factors Triggering a Mobilizational Coalition Populism as a Type of Mobilizational Coalition Populism as a Stage in the Development of a Party Bipolarity 3. Actors and Coalitions Social Actors as Collective Entities Political Weight The Church and Armed Forces: Effective and Normative Noninvolvement The State as an Autonomous Actor Intellectuals and Political Elites Coalitions Multiclass Integrative Parties: The Mexican Case 4. Violence and Revolution The Motivational Structure at the Level of the Individual The Structural Approach: Violence and Revolution Mass Society Violence, Repression, and Legitimacy The Level of Menace: Historical Comparisons 5. Military Interventionism The Military Role: Omnipotence or Illusion? Aristocratic Control: Nineteenth-Century Brazil Military Reformism: Tenentismo and Ibanismo The Military-lndustrial Convergence in Argentina From Moderating Role to Transformative Intervention 6. Socialist Labor Parties: The Early Experience The Problem of Organization: Militants and Bureaucrats Socialist Labor Parties The Contrast between Chilean and Social Structures The Peculiarity of the Impact of Immigration in Argentina The Intellectuals of the Labor Movement The EarlyArgentine Political Party System Authoritarian Populism in Chile: The First Ibanez Experience 7. Varieties of Populism and Their Transformative Tendencies Aprista or Middle-Class Populist Parties Social-Revolutionary Parties or Populist Labor Parties The Co-optation of the Labor Movement in Argentina The Changed Cultural Milieu of the Working Class Industrialists and the Peronist Elite Peronism and Varguismo Contrasted The Relevance of the Party System 8. A Modeled Historical Sequence: Argentina, 1938-2000 Period 1. Stable Situation before Times of Troubles (1938-1939) Period 2. Tensions and Menaces on the Increase (1942-1944) Period 3. Rise of Peronism and Its Access to Power (1944-1946) Period 4. Breakup of the Peronist Coalition (1954-1955) Period 5. The Impossible Game (1958-1976) Period 6. Unstable Dictatorship (1976-1982) Period 7. Breakup of the Proceso Coalition, Rise of Alfonsinismo (1982-1984) Period 8. The Menemista Transformation of Peronism (1991-1998) Period 9. Breakup of the Menemista Coalition, Alianza Access to Power (1998-1999) Period 10. Right-Left Bipolarity: The End of Argentine Exceptionalism? (2000-?) Notes Bibliography Index