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

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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]
©1989
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (227 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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