POLI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Iv Of Portugal, Bolivarian Revolution, Coronelism
9 Dec 2018
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Guerra talks about some of the aspects of the bolivarian revolution across south america: it overthrew old systems of absolutism and despotism . Those old systems, characteristic of colonial power was replaced by a doctrine of national sovereignty leaded by elite interests. As these latin american countries embraced early forms of democracy, we called the. Patrician logic and suffrage: in early 1800"s, political representation and voting became available. But only an aristocratic minority could participate: the oldest and most distinguished members of the city, proud the status of their lineage, fortune, culture and social influence . A country with larger indigenous populations tended to be less free (guerra 1994) indeed, Ecuador, peru and bolivia did not have universal suffrage. Because europeans did not want to lose any elections. These are countries that embrace the idea of democracy but do not expand the franchise at all. We can look at the case study of brazil: the brazilian monarchy.
