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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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Jezik: | Anglais |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2019.
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Cambridge University Press - CUP - Corpus Science politique (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Revolution and reaction, the diffusion of authoritarianism in Latin America, Kurt Weyland (University of Texas, Austin), 2019, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, 1 vol. (X-310 p.), 978-1-108-72883-6 |
| Izvleček: | 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 left held exaggerated hopes and why the right experienced excessive dread. The resulting polarization provoked a powerful backlash in which the right uniformly defeated the left. To forestall the feared spread of revolution, the military in many countries imposed authoritarian regimes and brutally suppressed left-wingers. Overly worried about the advance of Cuban-inspired radicalism as well, the United States condoned and supported the installation of dictatorship, but Latin American elites took the main initiative in these regressive regime changes. With a large number of primary and secondary sources, this book documents how the misperceptions on both sides of the ideological divide thus played a crucial role in the frequent destruction of democracy |
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| Opis knjige/članka: | Cambridge University Press - CUP - Corpus Science politique (Licence nationale) |
| Bibliografija: | Bibliographie. Index |
| ISBN: | 9781108692823 |
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