Transitions from authoritarian rule /  Latin America / 
edited by Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead ; [with a foreword by Abraham F. Lowenthal]. 
 - xii, 244 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Papers originally commissioned for a conference sponsored by the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars between 1979 and 1981.  Also published as part 2 in the one-vol. work Transitions from authoritarian rule.  Includes index. 
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<br/><br/>Introduction to the Latin American cases / Guillermo O'Donnell -- Political cycles in Argentina since 1955 / Marcelo Cavarozzi -- Bolivia's failed democratization, 1977-1980 / Laurence Whitehead -- The "liberalization" of authoritarian rule in Brazil / Luciano Martins -- The political evolution of the Chilean military regime and problems in the transition to democracy / Manuel Antonio Garretâon -- Political liberalization in an authoritarian regime; the case of Mexico / Kevin J. Middlebrook -- Military interventions and "transfer of power to civilians" in Peru / Julio Cotler -- Uruguay's transition from collegial military-technocratic rule / Charles G. Gillespie -- Petroleum and political pacts : the transition to democracy in Venezuela / Terry Lynn Karl. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801831881 (pbk : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>86002711 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Democracy--Case studies<br/>Authoritarianism--Latin America--Case studies<br/>Representative government and representation--Latin America--Case studies
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JL966  / .T74 1986