Revolution and reaction the diffusion of authoritarianism in Latin America

Why did so many Latin American leftists believe they could replicate the Cuban Revolution in their own countries, and why did so many rightists fear the spread of Communism? Cognitive-psychological insights about people's distorted inferences and skewed interest calculations explain why the lef...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Weyland, Kurt Gerhard, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press 2019.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39779695*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The difficulty of accounting for reverse waves
  • A theory of reactionary waves
  • Diffusion effects of the Cuban revolution
  • Waves of radicalization and reaction
  • The imposition of institutional authoritarianism
  • Horizontal diffusion and vertical promotion in the autocratic wave
  • Reactionary waves across history
  • Conclusion: theoretical refelctions.