Counterpoints: Selected Essays on Authoritarianism and Democratization

by Guillermo A. O'Donnell

Book Overview

The central, driving theme of this volume is democracy, its vicissitudes and its possibilities in Latin America. Guillermo O'Donnell considers the pattern of political and social alliances that have shaped Argentina's agitated history, and focuses on the tensions and intrinsic weaknesses of bureaucratic-authoritarianism, especially in its most repressive guises, at a time when it projected itself as an enduring, efficient, and potentially legitimate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026800837X
• ISBN13: 9780268008376
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"