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Labor-Industrial Conflict and the Collapse of Uruguayan Democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Howard Handelman
Howard Handelman*
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Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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During the 1960s and early 1970s, the collapse of civilian democracies in several of Latin America's most socioeconomically developed nations and the rise of highly institutionalized, repressive regimes raised serious questions about the nature of political development and political decay in that region. Neither advanced social indicators (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay), nor an extensive, modern-industrial economic sector (Argentina, Brazil), nor a sustained period of representative government (Chile, Uruguay) seemed to be guarantees of continued civilian-democratic rule. Indeed, scholars such as Guillermo O'Donnell have suggested that the nature of economic growth and industrialization in Latin America—most notably in the “Southern Cone”— had resulted in increased class conflict, intense political strains, and the rise of bureaucratic-authoritarian (B-A) regimes.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , November 1981 , pp. 371 - 394
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Copyright © University of Miami 1981

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