POLI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Brazilian Military Government, Dictablanda, Corporatism
13 May 2018
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Shades of Authoritarianism
From Populism and Corporatism to Military Dictatorship
The Swinging Pendulum from Left and Right
- Latin American countries have gone from more left wing, worker oriented regimes to right
wing authoritarian regimes and back again
- Dissatisfaction with one mode of rule (they would then seize power) and this has often led to
popular support for its opposite
Spectrum of Authoritarianism in Latin America
- Some Latin American regimes allow more political freedoms than others
- Some are more repressive and more violent than others
- Degrees of authoritarianism
- Cold War as golde age of Lati Aerian authoritarianism
- Competing super powers US democracy and Soviet communism backing various countries; US
back authoritarian regimes which stood against communism and embraced capitalist economic
mode
Ditatorship aording to degree: dictadura
- Dictadura: harsher for of authoritariais literally, ditatorship i “paish
- Refers to system where some key characteristics include repression of labor
- Populist regimes embraced corporatism, sought to coopt labor and to get working class
unionized and organized and organized as source of political support for governing party
- Dictadura rather than try to channel this approach have gone to repressing it harshly leaving
no freedom of press or speech, constant risk of arrest for anyone who would criticize regime, - -
- Deployment of death squads (refers to clandestine groups working with government security
forces sometimes police or military but also intel services who would go and kill people who
criticized regime and do so in a way that regime could deny their involvement
- Examples: Argentine military dictatorship (1976-83), Paraguayan dictatorship (1954-89)
Dictatorship according to degree: Dictablanda
- Dictablanda: relatively gentler form of authoritarianism, (blanda eas soft
- Softer authoritarianism relative to harsher version
- Civil society permitted to organize, certain degree of free speech, greater judicial branch
freedom (govt. may not respect judicial decision, but there was room for dissent/ judicial
freedom); arrest and disappearance less likely
- Examples: Mexico under the PRI (1929-2000), Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-8; Peros
Argetia, Chaezs Veezuela
- Term is subjective and disputed: sie Chaezs death ad rise to poer of Madero Veezuela
has gone from dicta blanda to dictadura, still a certain amount of tolerance for dissent but
leader is now hard and fast dictator
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Document Summary
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