The Role of the Military in Latin American Politics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3583458
AutoresTheodore Wyckoff (autor correspondente)
Ano1960
Volume13
Fascículo3
Páginas745
Data de publicação1960-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Western Political Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-4078 • E-ISSN: 2325-8675
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/444109
OpenAlexW4245812206
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21

HE ROLE of the military in contemporary Latin American politics requires the study of a wide variety of states ranging from Costa Rica, half the size of Ohio, with less than a million population, to Brazil, 160 times larger, whose population exceeds 60,000,000. The study encompasses a tremendously diverse geographical area containing societies ranging from some of the most cosmopolitan to indigenous ones virtually unchanged since Columbus. These are states whose social and political institutions draw on a Spanish or Portuguese cultural heritage rather than any Anglo-Saxon or North American institutions and experience. Although the written constitutions of many of them bear a superficial similarity to the Constitution of the United States, actual forms of political action are much closer to the traditions and practice of the two nations of Iberia

Constitution · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Population · Portuguese · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Demography · International Relations in Latin America · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America