The New Authoritarianism in Latin America.

Abstract

Within the large literature dealing with different aspects of this relationship, three crucial initial studies are: Seymour Martin Lipset, "Some Social Requisites In the course of this reassessment, a new term came into use.Argentina and Brazil were ruled by the military as an institution, rather than exclusively by individual military rulers.In addition, the military appeared to adopt a technocratic, bureaucratic approach to policy making (as opposed to a more "political" approach through which policies are shaped by economic and political demands from different sectors of society, expressed through such channels as elections, legislatures, political parties, and labor unions).This approach to policy making in these regimes has led scholars to join the adjective "bureaucratic" with the term "authoritarian" and to call these systems "bureaucratic-authoritarian."5This label has come to be an important addition to typologies of national political regimes. 6 The events of the 197o's in Latin America have greatly in-