Military rule in Argentina from 1976 to 1983 was a classic case
of bureaucratic authoritarianism. This book now presents for the
first time in English a close look at that country's experience,
providing new information on legal and institutional aspects of the
Argentine regime and the intricate interaction between military
rulers and trade unionists, while offering a model for the study of
regimes in general.
Integrating insights from a wide range of literature, Gerardo
Munck advances a novel conceptual framework for the study of
political regimes and regime change. He follows the life cycle of
regimes from founding through consolidation to demise, identifying
critical explanatory factors and showing how challenges faced by
governing elites in one phase affect subsequent political
developments.
In explaining Argentina's experience with bureaucratic
authoritarianism, Munck provides a compelling account of why that
country's military rulers were only partially successful in
designing a new institutional order and why they eventually fell,
in a precipitous and uncontrolled manner, from power. He attributes
their failure to the military's lack of cohesion and opposition to
their initiatives, and shows that both of these factors were
reinforced by the interim institutional arrangement the military
created. He particularly shows how the exclusion of labor, a sign
of military power, unwittingly undermined the military rulers,
preventing the successful institutionalization, and ultimately
precipitating the collapse, of bureaucratic authoritarianism.
Munck's comparison of the Argentine case with Chile from 1973 to
1990 and Brazil from 1964 to 1985 in the concluding chapter
provides a further test of his theoretical model, while his
analysis of the development of democracy in Argentina after 1983
demonstrates how important the legacies of authoritarian rule were.
His study makes a vital contribution to our understanding of both
regime development and a critical period of Argentine history.
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