Latin American Politics

Torcuato S. Di Tella is Professor of Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires. He has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Stanford University.

• Preface and Acknowledgments 1. The Study of Latin American Politics The Fall and Rise of Democracy Sociological Laws and Historical Processes The Program to Be Developed 2. Tensions in the Class Structure: From Social Mobilization to Autonomous Organization The Social Pyramid Social Mobilization and Mobilizationism Factors Triggering a Mobilizational Coalition Populism as a Type of Mobilizational Coalition Populism as a Stage in the Development of a Party Bipolarity 3. Actors and Coalitions Social Actors as Collective Entities Political Weight The Church and Armed Forces: Effective and Normative Noninvolvement The State as an Autonomous Actor Intellectuals and Political Elites Coalitions Multiclass Integrative Parties: The Mexican Case 4. Violence and Revolution The Motivational Structure at the Level of the Individual The Structural Approach: Violence and Revolution Mass Society Violence, Repression, and Legitimacy The Level of Menace: Historical Comparisons 5. Military Interventionism The Military Role: Omnipotence or Illusion? Aristocratic Control: Nineteenth-Century Brazil Military Reformism: Tenentismo and IbaÑismo The Military-lndustrial Convergence in Argentina From Moderating Role to Transformative Intervention 6. Socialist Labor Parties: The Early Experience The Problem of Organization: Militants and Bureaucrats Socialist Labor Parties The Contrast between Chilean and Argentine Social Structures The Peculiarity of the Impact of Immigration in Argentina The Intellectuals of the Labor Movement The EarlyArgentine Political Party System Authoritarian Populism in Chile: The First IbÁÑez Experience 7. Varieties of Populism and Their Transformative Tendencies "Aprista" or Middle-Class Populist Parties Social-Revolutionary Parties "Peronist" or Populist Labor Parties The Co-optation of the Labor Movement in Argentina The Changed Cultural Milieu of the Working Class Argentine Industrialists and the Peronist Elite Peronism and Varguismo Contrasted The Relevance of the Party System 8. A Modeled Historical Sequence: Argentina, 1938-2000 Period 1. Stable Situation before "Times of Troubles" (1938-1939) Period 2. Tensions and Menaces on the Increase (1942-1944) Period 3. Rise of Peronism and Its Access to Power (1944-1946) Period 4. Breakup of the Peronist Coalition (1954-1955) Period 5. The "Impossible Game" (1958-1976) Period 6. Unstable Dictatorship (1976-1982) Period 7. Breakup of the "Proceso" Coalition, Rise of Alfonsinismo (1982-1984) Period 8. The Menemista Transformation of Peronism (1991-1998) Period 9. Breakup of the Menemista Coalition, Alianza Access to Power (1998-1999) Period 10. Right-Left Bipolarity: The End of "Argentine Exceptionalism"? (2000-?) Notes Bibliography Index