Industrialization: Authoritarianism or Semi – Democracy?
I believe that O’Donnell’s findings, within the reading, are interesting to interpret. For example his idea about industrialization and the development of the populist and gaining support through the creation of initial phase of industrialization, which he classifies as consumer…
Week 3 The Military
In chapter 3 of Smith’s Democracy in Latin America, we can see the varied involvement of the military in Latin American politics over the years. Interactions between the public and the military have changed their relationship, separating them further and…
Authoritarianism or Democracy in Latin America?
After reading Collier and Chapter 3, there are some ideas about the construction of Authoritarian regimes in Latin America that I want to discuss. Firstly, it was interesting to read about the relationship between industrialization and political transformations. Collier parts from…
The Correlation of Power – Militaries and Citizens
There appears to be a consensus that the foundations of the present forms of democracy can be attributed to the use of primarily military authoritarian regimes solving the historically authoritarian forms of government (i.e. aristocracy and oligarchy). The debate is…
Popularity of Populism
I thought the link between industrialization and the election of a populist candidate/ activation of the popular sector was a link that was fun to think through. It initially made me consider why populist candidates were not elected from industrialized…
Military and Authoritarianism in Latin America
In Collier’s piece, he presents an argument that attempts to explain the rise of authoritarian and military regimes in specific areas of Latin America. Collier presents analysis from Guillermo O’Donnell in which three elements (regime qualities, nature of the politically…
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