WEEK 8: Transitions from Authoritarian Rule in the Southern Cone

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REQUIRED
  • Alfred Stepan, Rethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988), p. 30-67.

  • Jorge I. Dominguez and Abraham F. Lowenthal, eds., Constructing Democratic Governance: The New South American Democracies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996): 147-87 (Argentina and Brazil).

  • Barbara Stallings, "Political Economy of Democratic Transition: Chile in the 1980s," in Barbara Stallings and Robert Kaufman, eds., Debt and Democracy in Latin America (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1989), p. 181-199.

  • Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems in Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), p. 151-165, 190-218.

  • Howard J. Wiarda, "The Dominican Republic: Mirror Legacies of Democracy and Authoritarianism," in Larry Diamond, Juan Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset, Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989), p. 423-458.

  • Marta Lagos, "Public Opinion in New Democracies: Latin America's Smiling Mask," Journal of Democracy, July 1997, 8 (3):125-38.
RECOMMENDED
  • Eduardo Silva, "From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Business-State Nexus in Chile's Economic Transformation, 1975-94," Comparative Politics, April 1996, 28 (3):199-220.

  • Delia Boylan, "Taxation and Transition: The Politics of the 1990 Chilean Tax Reform," Latin American Research Review, 1996, 31 (1):7-32.

  • Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems in Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), p. 166-189.

  • Larry Diamond and Juan Linz, "Introduction: Politics, Society and Democracy in Latin America," in Larry Diamond, Juan Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset, Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989), p. 1-58.

  • Carlos H. Waisman, "Argentina: Autarkic Industrialization and Illegitimacy," in Larry Diamond, Juan Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset, Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989), p. 59-109.

  • Charles Guy Gillespie and Luis Eduardo Gonzalez, "Uruguay: The Survival of Old and Autonomous Institutions," in Larry Diamond, Juan Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset, Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989), p. 207-45.

  • Frances Hagopian, "Democracy by Undemocratic Means? Elites, Political Pacts, and Regime Transition in Brazil," Comparative Political Studies, July 1990, 23 (2):147-66.

  • John A. Booth and Mitchell A. Seligson, eds., Elections and Democracy in Central America (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1995), p. 25-44, 66-83, 244-85.

  • Stephen Haggard and Robert H. Kaufman, The Political Economy of Democratic Transition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).

  • Karen Remmer, "New Wine in Old Bottlenecks? The Study of Latin American Democracy," Comparative Politics, July 1991, 23 (4): 479-95.

  • Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead, eds., Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), p. 3-18.

  • James M. Malloy and Mitchell A. Seligson, eds., Authoritarians and Democrats: Regime Transition in Latin America (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 1987), p. 3-12, 145-63 (Ecuador).

  • Jorge I. Dominguez and Abraham F. Lowenthal, eds., Constructing Democratic Governance: The New South American Democracies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), p. 42-98, 118-146 (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay).

  • Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems in Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), p. 221-230.
LITERARY OVERLAY
  • Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows (New York: Random House, 1987). [Or movie version.]

 

 

Victim, General Pinochet's Coup d'Etat as a scene in the film The Battle of Chile.

Voters in one of the poorest areas of Recife, Brazil (1984) attend a political rally celebrating the first Brazilian democratic election in 25 years.

 

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