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This edited collection explores how different dictators and authoritarian parties and factions have frequently succeeded in rising to power in modern Latin America, often retaining political and/or military control for long periods of time.

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This edited collection explores how different dictators and authoritarian parties and factions have frequently succeeded in rising to power in modern Latin America, often retaining political and/or military control for long periods of time.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction by Will Fowler The Repeated Rise of General Antonio López de Santa Anna in the so-called "Age of Chaos" (Mexico, 1821-1855) by Will Fowler Pragmatism, patriarchy, and patronage: Profirio Díaz and personalist politics in Mexico by Paul Garner Ibañez: failed dictator and unwitting architect of political democracy in Chile, 1927-1931 by Francisco Domínguez Fulgencio Batista, 1933-1944: From Revolutionary to Populist by Antoni Kapcia Mechanisms of Control: The Stroessner Regime in Paraguay by Peter Lambert Honduras: The politics of exception and military reformism (1972-1978) by Rachel Sieder Proprietors not proletarians: The politics of housing subsidies under military rule in Chile by Ben Richards Bibliography Index

About the Author

WILL FOWLER is lecturer in Hispanic and Latin American Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.