We Should not Content Ourselves with a Sham
The US Foreign Service and the Central American Elections of the Early 1930s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4018224 |
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| Authors | Jorrit Van Den Berk (0000-0002-2495-1586, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 221-246 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022216x15001522 |
| OpenAlex | W2341529609 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Scholars have paid considerable attention to the connection between Washington's withdrawal from intervention and the emergence of dictatorship in Central America during the 1930s. The current article seeks to enhance our understanding of those interconnected developments through the investigation of the US Foreign Service and its role in the early 1930s presidential campaigns in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. It shows that the dynamic interaction between actors in both Washington and Central America set in motion a process that would produce decades of authoritarian rule in the isthmus
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Development economics · Dictatorship · Economics · Economy · Intervention (counseling) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Service (business) · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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