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Democratic Transitions in South America
Document Year 2000

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Abbassi, Jennifer. “A Progressive Research Agenda,” Latin American Perspectives 25 (6): 23 (November 1998).

Ames, Barry. “The Reverse Coattails Effect: Local party organization in the 1989 Brazilian presidential election,” American Political Science Review 88 (1): 95 (March 1994).

Elton, Catherine. “Creeping Dictatorship Challenges Democrats in Latin America,” Christian Science Monitor 90 (194): 7 (August 31, 1998).

Boeker, Paul. Lost illusions: Latin America’s struggle for democracy as recounted by its leaders (M. Wiener, 1990).

Booth, John. “Socioeconomic and Political Roots of National Revolts in Central America,” Latin American Research Review 26(?): 33 ( 1991).

Borón, Atilio. State, Capitalism, and Democracy in Latin America (Lynne Rienner, 1995).

Castro, Daniel (ed). Revolution and Revolutionaries: Guerrilla movements in Latin America ( SR Books, 1999).

Chasteen, John. Born In Blood And Fire: A concise history of Latin America (W. W. Norton, 2000).

Close, David (ed). Legislatures and the New Democracies in Latin America (Lynne Rienner, 1995).

Cockcroft, James. Latin America: History, politics, and US policy (Nelson Hall, 1995).

Cohen, Youssef. “Democracy from Above: The political origins of military dictatorship in Brazil,” World Politics 40 (1): 30 (October 1987).

Collier, David (ed). The New Authoritarianism in Latin America. (Princeton University Press, 1979).

Eckstein, Susan (ed). Rebellion in the Veins: Political struggle in Bolivia, 1952-1982 (Verso, 1984).

----. Power and Social Protest: Latin American social movements (University of California Press, 1989).

Edelstein, Joel and Ronald Chilcote (eds). Latin America: The struggle with dependency and beyond (John Wiley, 1974).

Finer, S. E. The Man on Horseback: The role of the military in politics (Pall Mall Press, 1962).

Fitch, John. The Armed Forces and Democracy in Latin America (John Hopkins University Press, 1998).

Hagopian, Mark. The Phenomenon of Revolution (Dodd, Mead, 1975).

Higley, John and Richard Gunther (eds). Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Hill, Roscoe. The National Archives of Latin America (Harvard University Press, 1945).

Hunter, Wendy. State and Soldier in Latin America: Redefining military influence in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile (US Institute of Peace, 1996).

Huntington, Samuel. “Civil-military relations in Argentina, Chile, and Peru,” Political Science Quarterly 112 (3): 453 (1997)

Janowitz, Morris. The Military in the Political Development of New Nations (University of Chicago Press, 1964).

Jones, Mark. “Federalism and the Number of Parties in Argentine Congressional Elections,” Journal of Politics 59 (2): 538 (May 1997).

Karl, Terry. “Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America,” Comparative Politics 23 (?):1 (1990).

Kasza, Gregory. “Bureaucratic Politics in Radical Military Regimes,” American Political Science Review 81 (3): 851 (September 1987).

Keehn, Norman. “Building Authority: A return to fundamentals,” World Politics 26 (3): 331 (April 1974).

Keen, Benjamin. A History of Latin America (Houghton Mifflin, 1996).

Lieuwen, Edwin. Generals vs. Presidents: Neo-militarism in Latin America (Praeger, 1965).

Loveman, Brian. “Protected Democracies and Military Guardianships: Political transitions in Latin America, 1978-1993. Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs 36 (2): 105 (Summer 1994).

Phillips, Lynne (ed). The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America: Cultural perspectives on neoliberalism (1998).

Millett, Richard. Beyond Praetorianism: The Latin American military in transition (North-South Center Press, 1995).

Muller, Edward, Henry Dietz, and Steven Finke. “Discontent and the Expected Utility of Rebellion: The case of Peru,” American Political Science Review 85 (4): 1261 (December 1991).

Musicant, Ivan. The Banana Wars: A history of United States military intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the invasion of Panama (Macmillan, 1990).

Nef, Jorge, “Demilitarization and Democratic Transition in Latin America,” in Sandor Halebsky and Richard L. Harris (eds), Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America (Westview Press, 1995).

Nun, Jose. “The Middle-class Military Coup,” pp. 66-118 in Claudio Veliz (ed), The Politics of Conformity in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 1967).

O’Donnell, Guillermo. Modernization and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Studies in South American politics (University of California Press, 1973).

O’Donnell, Guillermo, Philippe Schmitter, and Lawrence Whitehead (eds). Transitions From Authoritarian Rule (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).

Petras, James and Steve Vieux, “The Transition to Authoritarian Electoral Regimes in Latin America,” Latin American Perspectives 21 (4): 5 (Fall 1994).

Pike, Fredrick. Chile and the United States, 1880-1926: The Emergence of Chile’s social crisis and the challenge to United States Diplomacy (University of Notre Dame Press, 1963).

----. The United States and the Andean Republics: Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador (Harvard University Press, 1977).

Porter, Charles and Robert Alexander. The struggle for democracy in Latin America (Macmillan, 1961).

Potash, Robert. The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1962-1973: From Frondizi’s Fall to the Peronist Restoration (Stanford University Press, 1996).

Remmer, Karen. Military Rule in Latin America (Westview Press, 1989).

----. “The Process of Democratization in Latin America,” Studies in Comparative International Development 27 (4): 3 (Winter 1992, 1993).

Rochon, Thomas and Michael Mitchell. “Social Bases of the Transition to Democracy in Brazil,” Comparative Politics 21 (?): 307 (1989).

Sachs, Jeffrey and Juan Morales. Bolivia: 1952-1986 (International Center for Economic Growth, 1988).

Sarmiento, Augusto. “A Turbulent History: Violence and Columbia’s efforts to reform,” Harvard International Review 19 (4): 28 (Fall 1997).

Skidmore, Thomas. “Studying the History of Latin America: A case of hemispheric convergence,” Latin American Research Review 33 (1): 105 (1998).

Schoultz, Lars. Beneath the United States: A history of US policy toward Latin America (Harvard University Press, 1998).

Selbin, Eric. Modern Latin American Revolutions (Westview Press, 1993).

Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan (eds). The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978).

Stern, Steve. “A New Century of Solitude?” Latin American Perspectives 25 (6): 92 (November 1998).

Stokes, Susan. “Democracy and the Limits of Popular Sovereignty in South America,” pp. 59-81 in Joseph S. Tulchin with Bernice Romero (eds), The Consolidation of Democracy in Latin America (Lynne Rienner, 1995).

United States Department of State. “Argentina,” http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/ argentina_0010_bgn.html.

----. “Bolivia,” http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/bolivia_0011_bgn.html.

----. “Chile,” http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/chile_0010_bgn.html.

----. “Colombia,” http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/colombia_0800_ bgn.html.

----. “Ecuador,” http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/ecuador_0010_ bgn.html.

----. “Peru,” http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/peru_0300_bgn.html.

----. “Brazil,” http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/brazil_0700_bgn.html.

----. Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean: The promise and the challenge (Office of Public Communication, 1987).

United States Library of Congress Online. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html.

----. “Peru,” http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/petoc.html.

----. “Chile,” http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cltoc.html.

----. “Colombia,” http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cotoc.html.

----. “Ecuador,” http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ectoc.html.

----. “Bolivia,” http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/botoc.html.

----. “Brazil,” http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/brtoc.html.

Volk, Steven. “Democracy versus Democracy,” NACLA Report on the Americas 30 (4): 6 (January-February 1997).

Winn, Peter. Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur workers and Chile’s road to socialism (Oxford University Press, 1986).

World Almanac and Book of Facts. “Nations of the World,” (2000).

Zirker, Daniel. “Jose Nun’s Middle-Class Military Coup In Contemporary Perspective,” Latin American Perspectives 25 (5): 67 (September 1998).