On the Rise of Postwar Military Dictatorships

Argentina, Chile, Greece

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2107399
AutoresNicos Mouzelis, Nicos P Mouzelis (Universidad de Londres, autor correspondente)
Ano1986
Volume28
Fascículo1
Páginas55-80
Data de publicação1986-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500011841
OpenAlexW2155112402
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas41

Despite marked geographical and sociocultural differences, Greece and the two major southern-cone Latin American countries share a significant number of characteristics which distinguish them from most other peripheral and semiperipheral societies. Although they began industralisation late and failed to industrialise fully in the last century, all three countries managed to develop an important infrastructure (roads, railways) during the second half of the nineteenth century, and they achieved a notable degree of industrialisation in the years following each of the two world wars. Moreover, until the beginning of the nineteenth century, all three countries were subjugated parts of huge patrimonial empires (the Ottoman and the Iberian) and thus had never experienced the absolutist past of western and southern European societies. Finally, all three acquired their political independence in the early nineteenth century and very soon adopted parliamentary forms of political rule; and despite the constant malfunctioning of their representative institutions, relatively early urbanisation and the creation of a large urban middle class provided a framework within which bourgeois parliamentarism took strong roots and showed remarkable resilience. It persisted, albeit intermittently, from the second half of the nineteenth century until the rise of military bureaucratic-authoritarian regimes in the 1960s and 1970s and, as the Greek and Argentinian cases suggest, such regimes do not necessarily entail the irreversible decline of parliamentary democracy

Ancient history · Authoritarianism · Bourgeoisie · Democracy · Development economics · Dictatorship · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Independence (probability theory) · Industrialisation · Oligarchy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · History · Law