History of political parties in twentieth-century Latin America / Torcuato S. Di Tella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Tella, Torcuato S., 1929-

Standardized Title:

Historia de los partidos políticos en América Latina, siglo XX. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Political parties--Latin America--History.

Political parties.

History.

Latin America--Politics and government--20th century.

Latin America.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

x, 228 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, USA : Transaction Publishers, [2004]

Contents:

1. The Early Setting 1

Mexico, or the Reasons of Authoritarian Liberalism 1

Cuba: A Severely Guarded Boiler 3

The Caribbean and Central America 4

The South American Upper Tier 6

Peru Seeking a "Civilista" Right 8

Bolivia and Paraguay: A Structural Contrast 9

Brazil in the Times of "Cafe com Leite" 10

The Contrast between Chile and the River Plate Nations 11

2. Anarchism, Socialism, Revolutionary Nationalism: The Impact of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions 17

The Revolution in Mexico 18

The Impact in Peru: Aprismo and Mariategui's Version of Marxism 22

In Bolivia and Paraguay Flammable Materials Accumulate 24

The Difficult Cuban Apprenticeship 26

Central America: Sandino's Saga 27

The Divergent Paths of Venezuela and Colombia 28

Ideological Mutations in Brazil: Nationalism and Tenentismo 29

Chile between Alessandri and Ibanez: First Round 31

Political Evolution in Argentina: The Radical Party 33

The Uruguayan Model 37

3. The Military and Corporatist Onslaught: From the Thirties to the Second World War 43

Argentina in the "Decada Infame" 44

The Beginnings of Varguismo in Brazil 46

Chile during the Popular Front: Contrast with Argentina 50

Post-Batlle Uruguay 53

The Effects of the Chaco War on Bolivia and Paraguay 55

Peru: Roots of the Antagonism between Military and Apristas 59

Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela 60

Mexico, from the Maximato to Cardenismo 63

The Revolution of 1933 in Cuba: Between Grau and Batista 63

Central America in Flames Demands a Theoretical Revision 65

4. The Postwar Dawn: Populism and Its Transformations 71

Peronist Argentina 72

Brazil: All Against Vargas 74

The Fall of Peronism and the Onset of Mass Praetorianism in Argentina 76

Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia: Confronting Populism 80

Chile and the Second Coming of Ibanez 84

Peru and Ecuador: Variants of Populist Strategy 86

Towards a Definition of Populism 89

Venezuela, Cuba, and Colombia: The Struggle Against Militarism 92

The PRI Consolidates Its Hold on Mexico 96

5. The Sixties and Seventies: From Revolution to Military Intervention 99

The "Peruvian Revolution" 100

Revolutionary Bolivia: No News from Paraguay 101

Brazil: Radicalization under Goulart and Military Coup 103

The Unstable Argentine Military Regimes 108

Christian Democracy and the Unidad Popular in Chile 111

The End of the Uruguayan Switzerland 114

The Democratic Experience in Colombia and Venezuela 116

In Mexico Social Tensions Accumulate 117

6. The Central American and Caribbean Cauldron 121

El Salvador 121

Guatemala 124

Honduras 126

Nicaragua 127

Costa Rica 130

Panama 132

Cuba 134

Dominican Republic 136

Haiti 138

Puerto Rico 139

Jamaica and Trinidad 139

Guiana and Surinam 141

7. The Workings of Democracy: From the Eighties to the New Century 147

The Brazilian Transition 149

Diversity of Transitions: Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Paraguay 154

The Unexpected Breakdown of the Argentine Dictatorship 164

Political Openings in Uruguay and Chile 170

Party Bipolarity under Attack in Venezuela and Colombia 173

Mexico's Search for a Change 176

8. Continuity and Change in Latin American Party Systems 181

(a) The Classical Conservative/Liberal Polarity 185

(b) The Conservative/Liberal System Expanded towards Radicalism and Socialism 185

(c) The Right/Left Polarity 186

(d) Multiclass-Integrative Parties 187

(e) Middle-Class Populist Parties ("Aprista") 188

(f) Working-Class Populist Parties ("Peronist") 189

(g) Working-Class Socialist Parties ("Social Democrat") 190

(h) Social-Revolutionary Parties ("Fidelista") 192

(i) Variants of Parties of the Right 193

(j) Variants of Middle-Class Centrist Parties 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index.

ISBN:

0765801817

OCLC:

51840947