The Military in Politics: Changing Patterns in Brazil

by Alfred Stepan

Book Overview

The nature of the military institution in Brazil, its relations with civilian governments up to 1964, and its use of power since the coup of that year are examined by Alfred Stepan. Throughout his study, while looking at the Brazilian experience, he tests and reformulates implicit and explicit models, propositions, and middle-range hypotheses in the literature of civil-military relations and in political development theory.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691021708
• ISBN13: 9780691021706
• Release Date: July 1974
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.