Revolution and reaction : the diffusion of authoritarianism in Latin America
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| Natura: | E-Book |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press.
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| Riassunto: | Why did so many Latin American leftists believe they could replicate the Cuban Revolution in their own countries, and why did so many rightists fear the spread of Communism? Cognitive-psychological insights about people's distorted inferences and skewed interest calculations explain why the left held exaggerated hopes and why the right experienced excessive dread. The resulting polarization provoked a powerful backlash in which the right uniformly defeated the left. To forestall the feared spread of revolution, the military in many countries imposed authoritarian regimes and brutally suppressed left-wingers. Overly worried about the advance of Cuban-inspired radicalism as well, the United States condoned and supported the installation of dictatorship, but Latin American elites took the main initiative in these regressive regime changes. With a large number of primary and secondary sources, this book documents how the misperceptions on both sides of the ideological divide thus played a crucial role in the frequent destruction of democracy |
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Sommario:
- The difficulty of accounting for reverse waves
- A theory of reactionary waves
- Revolution and the reactionary backlash in Latin America
- Diffusion effects of the Cuban revolution
- Waves of radicalization and reaction
- The imposition of institutional authoritarianism
- Horizontal diffusion and vertical promotion in the autocratic wave
- Comparative perspectives and theoretical conclusions
- Reactionary waves across history