DANCEST 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Far-Left Politics, Class Conflict, Falklands War
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Learning goals: what was/is the impact of decolonization on the variety of political systems within. : dynamics of political transformation, modern latin america (2010) Illiberal democracy, which combines free and fair elections with the partial, but systematic, denial of civil liberties to citizens. Industrial revolution in europe precipitated fundamental change in the economies of latin america. Liberal theory inspired elites to promote export-import economies (export of natural goods and raw materials; import of manufactured goods from europe and the us) Commerce flourished and foreign investment flowed from the industrial nations. Oligarchic democracy (e. g. argentina, chile: imposition of dictatorial strongmen, often military officers, to assert law and order, for the ultimate benefit of economic elites (e. g. mexico, venezuela, Peru) > indirect application of elite rule through dictators who often did not themselves come from the upper ranks of society stability and social control.
