This book presents the findings of an empirical investigation into the political and economic processes in Argentina between June 1966 and March 1973. By interpreting these processes through concepts whose theoretical status is made explicit at the outset, and by comparing this case to analogous ones—Brazil after 1964, Uruguay and Chile after 1973, and Argentina (again) after 1976—the book is intended to advance the understanding of what I have termed the bureaucratic-authoritarian (BA) state, and on the basis of this understanding to analyze and critique the characteristics and consequences of this form of rule. In the course of the research that went into this book, it proved necessary to move back and forth across several levels of analysis and data, from the most structural to those related to the perceptions and ideological orientations of some key actors of the period. This shifting back and forth was costly in time and effort but indispensable for tracing a sequence of events that cannot properly be reduced to any single level of analysis.
Author(s): Guillermo A. O'Donnell
Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 1988
Language: English
Pages: 356
City: Berkeley
* Preface
* One Theoretical and Historical Background to the Study of the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State
* Two The Implantation of the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State
* Three Paternalists, Liberals, and Economic Normalization
* Four The Normalization Program of 1967–1969
* Five Economic Successes and Political Problems
* Six Crisis and Collapse
* Seven Levingston: The "Nationalization" of the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State
* Eight The Garden of the Diverging Paths
* Nine Economic Crisis and Political Violence
* Ten A Curious End to a Sad Story
* Methodological Appendix
* Notes
* Index
