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The New Authoritarianism in Latin America
The New Authoritarianism in Latin America
Edited by David Collier
Princeton University Press, 1980, 424 pp
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Seeking to understand authoritarianism and its relationship to the problems of economic development, the authors provide nine essays on the general nature of the bureaucratic/authoritarian model, the reasons for its emergence, and its possible future evolution. A study by Albert Hirschman on economic determinants is interesting.

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