POLI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Brazilian Military Government, Dictablanda, Corporatism
9 Dec 2018
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Shades of authoritarianism : from populism and corporatism to military dictatorship. These are the kind of rule that many latin american countries are experiencing. We looked at forms of authoritarianism already, from per n to chavez. Authoritarianism can"t just be defined as non-democratic and non-competitive system. Latin american region has been a swinging pendulum phenomenon between left and right regime: latin america countries gave gone from left-wing, worker-oriented to regimes to right- wing. There is a spectrum of authoritarianism in latin america. Indeed: some regimes allow more political freedom than others, some are more repressive and more violent than others, cold war was golden age of latin american authoritarianism: governments and rival group was in struggle between capitalism and communism. Dictadura: harsher from of authoritarianism- repression of labor (populist regime embraced the idea of corporatism, and to get the working class unionized as a source of political support for the governing party.
