Transitions to Democracy
Magaloni’s The Third of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks offers an effective and pragmatic take on Mexico’s “PRI” party and its 70 year control of Mexican politics and government. Amidst its Latin American peers Mexico is different in…
International Contexts
Gill’s The Military, Political Violence and Impunity reminded me, especially in its opening pages, of an over-caffeinated vice president of the “Students for Socialism” club at the bi-weekly “rage against the machine meeting” at the grunge coffee shop near campus….
Authoritarianism and The Southern Cone
Naturally, one would assume with capitalistic expansion classical liberal values would accompany, especially after the model set forth by western nations like England and the United States. Industrialism and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism aren’t inherently synonymous or related frankly. That is what…
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