This book explores the continuity of oligarchic rule in the Americas of the modern period, with a focus on the variable compatibility of oligarchic rule and democratic government. This focus sets the terms for a comparative inquiry that creates a novel perspective on the politics of Latin America and the United States alike. The continuity depends on the formation of a patrimonial State and a porous division between oligarchic interests and the public sphere of democratic politi...
Зміст
Part I: Modes of Oligarchic Rule in Latin America.- Chapter 1: Oligarchic Rule in the Americas, South to North.- Chapter 2: Oligarchy and the Patrimonial State.- Chapter 3:...
Про автора
Joe Foweraker is Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, and Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the former Professor o...