The Ideology of State Terror : : Economic Doctrine and Political Repression in Argentina and Peru / / David Pion-Berlin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Pion-Berlin, David ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Acknowledgments --; PART ONE. THE FUNCTION AND ORIGIN OF IDEAS --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Structuralism, Monetarism, and Political Repression: An Interpretation --; 3 The International Monetary Fund --; PART TWO. ARGENTINA --; 4 Argentine State-Labor Relations and Economic Policies: A Brief Historical Review --; 5 Security Ideology, Liberal Economics, and the "Dirty War'' in Argentina, 1976-1983 --; PART THREE. PERU --; 6 The Limits to Democratic Rule: "Beltranismo" and the Politics of Austerity --; 7 The Revolution Unraveled: The Morales Bermúdez Government and Monetarist Policy --; PART FOUR. COMPARISONS AND CONCLUSIONS --; 8 Repression and Social Opposition in Comparative Perspective --; 9 Economic "Experts" Against Dominant Classes --; Appendix --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685853082; 9783110784268
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685853082
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Pion-Berlin.

Departing from conventional wisdom, Pion-Berlin argues that the use of state terror by Latin American regimes often has been the product of intellectual constructs, not a reaction to dissent and violent upheavals by the popular classes or to pressures from the economically powerful classes.