Research Catalog

Title

Pressure groups and power elites in Peruvian politics / by Carlos A. Astiz.

Author

Astiz, Carlos Alberto.

Publication

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [1969]

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Description

xviii, 316 pages : map; 22 cm

Summary

Study of the political system of Peru, with particular reference to the role of interest groups in political problems connected with political leadership and the relation thereof to the overall social structure - examines the influence of internal factors (incl. The Catholic Church, the armed forces and political parties) and external factors (incl. The role of USA and American foreign investment, etc.), and covers ownership, etc. Bibliography pp. 276 to 310.

Subject

• Pressure groups > Peru
• Social classes > Peru
• Politics and government
• Pressure groups
• Social classes
• Pressure-group
• Pressiegroepen
• Politieke elites
• political system
• interest group
• political problem
• political leadership
• social structure
• Church
• armed forces
• political party
• role of USA
• foreign investment
• ownership
• Politics and government > Peru
• Power structure > Peru
• Social stratification > Peru
• régime politique
• groupe d'intérêt
• problème politique
• direction politique
• structure sociale
• Eglise
• forces armées
• parti politique
• rôle des Etats-Unis
• investissement étranger
• propriété
• régimen político
• grupo de intereses
• problema político
• dirección política
• estructura social
• iglesia
• fuerzas armadas
• partido político
• papel de los EUA
• inversiones extranjeras
• propiedad
• Peru > Politics and government
• Peru
• Peru
• Pérou
• Perú

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• bibliographie.
• bibliografía.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [276]-310.

Contents

pt. 1. Introduction to Peru -- The Costa -- The Sierra -- The Selva -- Land Scarcity -- Population -- pt. 2. Conceptual Framework -- Social Structure and Political Power -- Interest Groups and Social Classes -- Social Class as a Tool of Analysis -- pt. 3. Historical Development of Peruvian Society -- pt. 4. The Upper and Middle Classes in contemporary Peru -- The Creole Upper Class -- The Industrial Upper Class -- The Middle Classes -- pt. 5. The Lower Class -- Politics within the Indian Communities -- pt. 6. Political Parties -- The Appearance of a Mass Party: The APRA or PAP -- Accion Popular -- The Union Nacional Odriista -- The Christian Democrats -- The Extreme Left --The Peruvian Military -- Nineteenth-Century Militarism in Peru -- Suspension of the Community of Interests -- The Center of High Military Studies -- The 1962 Military Revolt and Its Aftermath -- The New Military in Power -- The Military under the Belaunde Terry Administration -- pt. 8. The Church -- The Church during the First Century of Independence -- The Peruvian Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century -- pt. 9. Interest Groups and the Problems of Interest Articulation -- Upper-Class Interest Groups -- Middle-Class interest Groups -- Lower-Class Interest Groups -- Unionized Urban and Coastal Plantation Workers -- The Marginal Urban Dwellers -- The Peasants -- pt. 10. External Factors Influencing Peruvian Politics -- Military Penetration: The Case of the Cuban Documents -- Economic Penetration: The International Petroleum Company -- The Penetrators and the Ruling Class -- pt. 11. The Possibility and Source of Political Change: Revolution from Above of Below? -- The Possibility of Revolution from Above -- The Possibility of Revolution from Below -- pt. 12. Postscript: The Coup d'Etat of October 3, 1968 -- Immediate Background of the Coup d'Etat -- The Schism of Accion Popular -- The Agreement with the International Petroleum Company -- Progressive Indebtedness of Peru -- The Unfolding of the Coup d'Etat -- Policies and Performance of the MIlitary Government.

ISBN

• 0801405386
• 9780801405389

LCCN

74087012

OCLC

• ocm00044778
• 44778
• SCSB-124781

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library