Robert H Dix
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 271285 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert H Dix |
| NOMBRES | Robert H |
| APELLIDO | Dix |
| FIRMA | DIX R H |
| AFILIACIONES | Rice University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 296 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1968 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Local Government in Latin America
This guide to local government in Latin America provides a detailed overview of the political and economic significance of local government in the region as a whole, as well as 18 country studies written to a common format
History and Democracy Revisited
In what Samuel Huntington has referred to as the third wave, democracy, or at least its substantial beginnings, has in recent years reemerged or erupted for the first time in virtually all corners of the globe, including some of the least likely places such as Mongolia, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, and the countries of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.' As consequence, scholars have returned to the question, largely dormant for almost two…
The Making of Modern Colombia
Military Coups and Military Rule in Latin America
Contrary to the prognostications of authors writing as late as 15 years ago, both military coups and direct military rule in Latin America are shown to have undergone a sudden, sustained, region-wide decline following a notable upsurge during the 1970s. Rather than with changing levels of socioeconomic development, the explanation lies substantially with the legacy of military rule itself, including the military's association with economic failur…
Democratization and the Institutionalization of Latin American Political Parties
In this article, the author assesses the prospects for the consolidation of democracy in Latin America in the 1990s, compared with the failure to achieve that goal in the 1960s, by examining the institutionalization of political parties in the two time periods. Samuel Huntington's criteria of institutionalization (adaptability, complexity, autonomy, and coherence) are used and employ a variety of indicators (some empirical, some more judgmental) …
Eastern Europe's Implications for Revolutionary Theory
Sweeping changes in eastern Europe pose a variety of challenges to theories of revolution which are rooted largely in the experiences of such agrarian-based autocracies as the French, Russian and Chinese. This article addresses questions of the causes, processes, and outcomes of these revolutions, as well as their implications for the very term "revolution" itself. The author argues that a new generation of revolutionary theory is needed to incor…
Social Change and Party System Stability in Colombia
In August 1989 a Declaration of War On The State by Colombian drug traffickers and the attendant murder of a leading presidential candidate, Liberal Luis Carlos Galgn, seemed to threaten the foundations of democracy itself. Yet as the campaign leading up to the 1990 elections went forward under conditions of extraordinarily tight security, it also appeared that Colombia's two traditional parties would enter the next decade paradoxically still sec…
Democracy in Colombia
In what is destined to prove the definitive text for the present generation on the political, economic, and social structure of Colombia, Jorge Pablo Osterling explores the enigmatic nature of this special, even critical, anchor to the northern tier of South America. In many ways, Colombia is a huge success story: it is one of the oldest, most stable, functioning democracies; the land is blessed with rich and diversified resources and products; a…
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Cleavage Structures and Party Systems in Latin America
In a seminal article in 1967 Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan posed a series of central questions for the comparative study of party systems. The first set of questions concerned the genesis of the system of cleavages within the national community, including the timing of their appearance and their relative salience and durability. A second group of questions focused on the translation of cleavages into stable party systems, including the q…
Oligarcas, campesinos y politica en Colombia
Oligarcas, campesinos y política en Colombia
The Politics of Colombia
The Politics of Colombia
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Populism
Populism is one of those terms (democracy is another) that is frequently employed in the study of politics and varies in meaning from context to context and from author to author. Thus the term has been invoked in studies of such agrarian-based movements as nineteenth-century agrarian unrest in the United States and the narodniki of prerevolutionary Russia as well as being applied to the largely urban-based populism of Latin America. Moreover, mo…
Why Revolutions Succeed & Fail
At any given time in the world today, numerous movements, claiming to be revolutionary, may be struggling to go forward. Most of them will probably get nowhere. Why some succeed and others fail is the question to which Professor Dix addresses himself in this article. He argues that, more than any particular socioeconomic level which may be said to make a polity ripe for revolutionary change, a movement's ability to assemble a broad "negative" coa…
Incumbency and Electoral Turnover in Latin America
In contemporary Latin America whenever there are successive free elections turnover tends to occur at every opportunity. That is, incumbent parties or coalitions seldom win; if they do, they almost invariably show diminished electoral support compared to that of the previous election.The frequency of incumbent defeat seems especially remarkable in view of the traditionally strong Latin American presidency. The history of some Latin American count…
Colombia
The Varieties of Revolution
In his Political Order in Changing Societies Samuel Huntington delineated two types of revolutions or revolutionary processes,' the Western and the Eastern. Huntington argues, along with most other scholars, that true revolutions tend to take place only in or transitional (albeit still substantially traditional) societies.2 Thus the distinction between the two varieties of revolution derives essentially from differences in the nature of the old r…
The Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
5Y rEARS of scholarly concern with the conditions of democracy have been followed rather belatedly by recent attention on the part of students of comparative politics to the clearly related, though hardly identical, question of the breakdown of democratic regimes. Similarly, most students of military governments, and of authoritarian regimes generally, have been far more interested in the reasons for military intervention in politics than in the …
Consociational Democracy
In a series of books and articles beginning in 1968, Arend Lijphart has distinguished a variety of democracy in which centrifugal tendencies inherent in a plural society are counteracted by the cooperative attitudes and behavior of the leaders of the different segments of the population.' Through a variety of artificial, antimajoritarian devices, such as grand coalitions, the rule of proportionality, and mutual vetoes, it is argued, political lea…
Democracy in Latin America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Varieties of Populism
The Black Book of American Intervention in Chile
Cleavage Structures and Party Systems in Latin America
In a seminal article in 1967 Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan posed a series of central questions for the comparative study of party systems. The first set of questions concerned the genesis of the system of cleavages within the national community, including the timing of their appearance and their relative salience and durability. A second group of questions focused on the translation of cleavages into stable party systems, including the q…
Democratization and the Institutionalization of Latin American Political Parties
In this article, the author assesses the prospects for the consolidation of democracy in Latin America in the 1990s, compared with the failure to achieve that goal in the 1960s, by examining the institutionalization of political parties in the two time periods. Samuel Huntington's criteria of institutionalization (adaptability, complexity, autonomy, and coherence) are used and employ a variety of indicators (some empirical, some more judgmental) …
Why Revolutions Succeed & Fail
At any given time in the world today, numerous movements, claiming to be revolutionary, may be struggling to go forward. Most of them will probably get nowhere. Why some succeed and others fail is the question to which Professor Dix addresses himself in this article. He argues that, more than any particular socioeconomic level which may be said to make a polity ripe for revolutionary change, a movement's ability to assemble a broad "negative" coa…
Consociational Democracy
In a series of books and articles beginning in 1968, Arend Lijphart has distinguished a variety of democracy in which centrifugal tendencies inherent in a plural society are counteracted by the cooperative attitudes and behavior of the leaders of the different segments of the population.' Through a variety of artificial, antimajoritarian devices, such as grand coalitions, the rule of proportionality, and mutual vetoes, it is argued, political lea…
The Varieties of Revolution
In his Political Order in Changing Societies Samuel Huntington delineated two types of revolutions or revolutionary processes,' the Western and the Eastern. Huntington argues, along with most other scholars, that true revolutions tend to take place only in or transitional (albeit still substantially traditional) societies.2 Thus the distinction between the two varieties of revolution derives essentially from differences in the nature of the old r…
Populism
Populism is one of those terms (democracy is another) that is frequently employed in the study of politics and varies in meaning from context to context and from author to author. Thus the term has been invoked in studies of such agrarian-based movements as nineteenth-century agrarian unrest in the United States and the narodniki of prerevolutionary Russia as well as being applied to the largely urban-based populism of Latin America. Moreover, mo…
The Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
5Y rEARS of scholarly concern with the conditions of democracy have been followed rather belatedly by recent attention on the part of students of comparative politics to the clearly related, though hardly identical, question of the breakdown of democratic regimes. Similarly, most students of military governments, and of authoritarian regimes generally, have been far more interested in the reasons for military intervention in politics than in the …
History and Democracy Revisited
In what Samuel Huntington has referred to as the third wave, democracy, or at least its substantial beginnings, has in recent years reemerged or erupted for the first time in virtually all corners of the globe, including some of the least likely places such as Mongolia, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, and the countries of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.' As consequence, scholars have returned to the question, largely dormant for almost two…
Incumbency and Electoral Turnover in Latin America
In contemporary Latin America whenever there are successive free elections turnover tends to occur at every opportunity. That is, incumbent parties or coalitions seldom win; if they do, they almost invariably show diminished electoral support compared to that of the previous election.The frequency of incumbent defeat seems especially remarkable in view of the traditionally strong Latin American presidency. The history of some Latin American count…
Military Coups and Military Rule in Latin America
Contrary to the prognostications of authors writing as late as 15 years ago, both military coups and direct military rule in Latin America are shown to have undergone a sudden, sustained, region-wide decline following a notable upsurge during the 1970s. Rather than with changing levels of socioeconomic development, the explanation lies substantially with the legacy of military rule itself, including the military's association with economic failur…
The Varieties of Populism
Eastern Europe's Implications for Revolutionary Theory
Sweeping changes in eastern Europe pose a variety of challenges to theories of revolution which are rooted largely in the experiences of such agrarian-based autocracies as the French, Russian and Chinese. This article addresses questions of the causes, processes, and outcomes of these revolutions, as well as their implications for the very term "revolution" itself. The author argues that a new generation of revolutionary theory is needed to incor…
Social Change and Party System Stability in Colombia
In August 1989 a Declaration of War On The State by Colombian drug traffickers and the attendant murder of a leading presidential candidate, Liberal Luis Carlos Galgn, seemed to threaten the foundations of democracy itself. Yet as the campaign leading up to the 1990 elections went forward under conditions of extraordinarily tight security, it also appeared that Colombia's two traditional parties would enter the next decade paradoxically still sec…
Colombia
The Chilean Political Right and Agrarian Reform
The Last, Best Hope
Revolutionary Writings
Tendencias de la participación electoral en Colombia, 1935-1966
The Christian Democratic Party in Chile. A Study of Political Organization and Activity with Primary Emphasis on the Local Level
The Chilean Road to Socialism
The Chilean Road to SocialismSmall Earthquake in Chile
Bureaucratic Politics and Administration in Chile
The Black Book of American Intervention in Chile
The Varieties of Populism
Consociational Democracy
In a series of books and articles beginning in 1968, Arend Lijphart has distinguished a variety of democracy in which centrifugal tendencies inherent in a plural society are counteracted by the cooperative attitudes and behavior of the leaders of the different segments of the population.' Through a variety of artificial, antimajoritarian devices, such as grand coalitions, the rule of proportionality, and mutual vetoes, it is argued, political lea…
Democracy in Latin America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
5Y rEARS of scholarly concern with the conditions of democracy have been followed rather belatedly by recent attention on the part of students of comparative politics to the clearly related, though hardly identical, question of the breakdown of democratic regimes. Similarly, most students of military governments, and of authoritarian regimes generally, have been far more interested in the reasons for military intervention in politics than in the …
The Varieties of Revolution
In his Political Order in Changing Societies Samuel Huntington delineated two types of revolutions or revolutionary processes,' the Western and the Eastern. Huntington argues, along with most other scholars, that true revolutions tend to take place only in or transitional (albeit still substantially traditional) societies.2 Thus the distinction between the two varieties of revolution derives essentially from differences in the nature of the old r…
Why Revolutions Succeed & Fail
At any given time in the world today, numerous movements, claiming to be revolutionary, may be struggling to go forward. Most of them will probably get nowhere. Why some succeed and others fail is the question to which Professor Dix addresses himself in this article. He argues that, more than any particular socioeconomic level which may be said to make a polity ripe for revolutionary change, a movement's ability to assemble a broad "negative" coa…
Incumbency and Electoral Turnover in Latin America
In contemporary Latin America whenever there are successive free elections turnover tends to occur at every opportunity. That is, incumbent parties or coalitions seldom win; if they do, they almost invariably show diminished electoral support compared to that of the previous election.The frequency of incumbent defeat seems especially remarkable in view of the traditionally strong Latin American presidency. The history of some Latin American count…
Colombia
Populism
Populism is one of those terms (democracy is another) that is frequently employed in the study of politics and varies in meaning from context to context and from author to author. Thus the term has been invoked in studies of such agrarian-based movements as nineteenth-century agrarian unrest in the United States and the narodniki of prerevolutionary Russia as well as being applied to the largely urban-based populism of Latin America. Moreover, mo…
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Oligarcas, campesinos y politica en Colombia
Oligarcas, campesinos y política en Colombia
The Politics of Colombia
The Politics of Colombia
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
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