Latin American Dictatorships in the Era of Fascism focuses on the reverse-
wave of dictatorships that emerged in Latin America during the 1930s
and the transnational dissemination of authoritarian institutions in the
era of fascism.
António Costa Pinto revisits the study of authoritarian alternatives
to liberal democracy in 1930s Latin America from the perspective of
the diffusion of corporatism in the world of inter-war dictatorships.
The book explores what drove the horizontal spread of corporatism
in Latin America, the processes and direction of transnational diffu-
sion, and how social and political corporatism became a central set of
new institutions utilized by dictatorships during this era. These issues
are studied through a transnational and comparative research design
to reveal the extent of Latin America’s participation during the cor-
poratist wave which by 1942 had significantly reduced the number of
democratic regimes in the world.
This book is essential reading for students studying Latin American
history, 1930s dictatorships and authoritarianism, and the spread of
corporatism.
Author(s): António Costa Pinto
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020
Language: English
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: Dictatorships and political institutions in the fascist era
1 Social and political corporatism during the first wave of democratization
2 The diffusion of corporatism in Latin America: the humus of social Catholicism, Action Française, and fascism
PART II: The worlds of dictatorships in Latin America
3 The 1930s authoritarian wave in Latin America
4 Uriburu and the failed corporatist dictatorship in Argentina
5 The dictatorship of Ibáñez and corporatism in Chile
6 Peru under Sánchez Cerro and Benavides
7 Rafael Franco and the ‘Febrerista’ regime in Paraguay
8 The Bolivia of David Toro: ‘military socialism’ with a fascist overtone
9 Gabriel Terra and the Uruguayan Dictablanda
10 The New State of Getúlio Vargas: the primacy of social corporatism in Brazil
11 Lázaro Cárdenas and the permutations of corporatism in authoritarian Mexico
12 Laureano Gómez and the failure of authoritarian corporatism in Colombia
13 The ‘fascist era’ in Latin America: the resilience of competitive authoritarianism: concluding remarks
Index
