Transitions from authoritarian rule.
By: edited by Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead ; [with a foreword by Abraham F. Lowenthal].
Contributors: O'Donnell, Guillermo A.; Schmitter, Philippe C.; Whitehead, Laurence.; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Latin American Program.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Representative government and representation -- Latin America -- Case studies.; Authoritarianism -- Latin America -- Case studies.; Democracy -- Case studies.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 221-236.
Papers originally commissioned for a conference sponsored by the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars between 1979 and 1981.
Also published as part 2 in the one-vol. work Transitions from authoritarian rule.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the Latin American cases / Guillermo O'Donnell; title: Political cycles in Argentina since 1955 / Marcelo Cavarozzi; title: Bolivia's failed democratization, 1977-1980 / Laurence Whitehead; title: The "liberalization" of authoritarian rule in Brazil / Luciano Martins; title: The political evolution of the Chilean military regime and problems in the transition to democracy / Manuel Antonio Garretón; title: Political liberalization in an authoritarian regime; the case of Mexico / Kevin J. Middlebrook; title: Military interventions and "transfer of power to civilians" in Peru / Julio Cotler; title: Uruguay's transition from collegial military-technocratic rule / Charles G. Gillespie; title: Petroleum and political pacts : the transition to democracy in Venezuela / Terry Lynn Karl.