Research Catalog

Title

Transitions from authoritarian rule. Latin America / edited by Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead ; [with a foreword by Abraham F. Lowenthal].

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1986], ©1986.

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Additional Authors

• O'Donnell, Guillermo A.
• Schmitter, Philippe C.
• Whitehead, Laurence.
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Latin American Program.

Description

xii, 244 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Representative government and representation > Latin America > Case studies
• Authoritarianism > Latin America > Case studies
• Democracy > Case studies

Note

• Papers originally commissioned for a conference sponsored by the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars between 1979 and 1981.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 221-236.

Contents

Introduction to the Latin American cases / Guillermo O'Donnell -- Political cycles in Argentina since 1955 / Marcelo Cavarozzi -- Bolivia's failed democratization, 1977-1980 / Laurence Whitehead -- The "liberalization" of authoritarian rule in Brazil / Luciano Martins -- The political evolution of the Chilean military regime and problems in the transition to democracy / Manuel Antonio Garretón -- Political liberalization in an authoritarian regime; the case of Mexico / Kevin J. Middlebrook -- Military interventions and "transfer of power to civilians" in Peru / Julio Cotler -- Uruguay's transition from collegial military-technocratic rule / Charles G. Gillespie -- Petroleum and political pacts : the transition to democracy in Venezuela / Terry Lynn Karl.

ISBN

0801831881 (pbk : alk. paper)

LCCN

86002711

OCLC

ocm13159276

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries