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Reversal of Development in Argentina

Postwar Counterrevolutionary Policies and Their Structural Consequences

By: Carlos Horacio Waisman

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Reversal of Development in Argentina

Postwar Counterrevolutionary Policies and Their Structural Consequences

By: Carlos Horacio Waisman

Carlos Waisman has pinpointed the specific beliefs that led the Peronists unwittingly to transform their country from a relatively prosperous land of recent settlement, like Australia and Canada, to an impoverished and underdeveloped society resembling the rest of Latin America. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400858852

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9781400858859

Modernization and the Working Class

The Politics of Legitimacy

By: Carlos H. Waisman

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Modernization and the Working Class

The Politics of Legitimacy

By: Carlos H. Waisman

This is a fascinating inquiry into the factors that determine the acceptance or rejection of capitalism by the industrial working class. Combining classical social theory, historical evidence, and survey data, Waisman explores the relationship between the degree of modernization and the legitimacy of the capitalist social order. Propositions about the interaction between established elites and emerging working classes are illustrated with three typical cases: Disraelian Britain, Bismarckian Germany, and Peronist Argentina. From the contrasting theories of Marx and Bakunin, the author derives hypotheses concerning the position of the working class in the economy and the consequences this has for legitimacy. He finds that countries at middle levels of industrial development—mostly latecomers to industrialization in Southern Europe and advanced areas of Latin America—have the greatest difficulty in establishing capitalism as a legitimate social order. They are advanced enough to have a large working class, yet underdeveloped enough to have a dissatisfied one.

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University of Texas Press

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0292769466

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Radical Evil on Trial

By: Carlos Santiago Nino

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Radical Evil on Trial

By: Carlos Santiago Nino

Does an emergent democracy have an obligation to prosecute its former dictators for crimes against humanity—for what Arendt and Kant called "radical evil"? What impact will such prosecutions have on the future of democracy? In this book, Carlos Santiago Nino offers a provocative first-hand analysis of developments in Argentina during the 1980s, when a brutal military dictatorship gave way to a democratic government. Nino played a key role in guiding the transition to democracy and in shaping the human rights policies of President Ra�l Alfons�n after the fall of the military junta in 1983. The centerpiece of Alfons�n's human rights program was the trial held in a federal court in Buenos Aires in 1985, which resulted in the convictions of five of the leading members of the junta that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983. Placing the Argentine experience in the context of the war crimes trials at Nuremberg, Tokyo, and elsewhere, Nino examines the broader questions raised by human rights trials. He considers their political repercussions and their potential for strengthening the new democratic government. He explains why prosecutions for human rights violations should be grounded on a theory of the criminal law that emphasizes the preventive rather than retributive functions of punishment. Nino rejects the obligation to punish perpetrators of radical evil and argues instead for a more forward-looking duty—to safeguard democracy. This, he believes, is what ultimately justified the Argentine trials and should be the focus of any international action.

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Yale University Press

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0300077289

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9780300077285

Reversal of Development in Argentina

Postwar Counterrevolutionary Policies and Their Structural Consequences

By: Carlos Horacio Waisman

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Postwar Counterrevolutionary Policies and Their Structural Consequences

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Modernization and the Working Class

The Politics of Legitimacy

By: Carlos H. Waisman

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Book's by Carlos Horacio Waisman

Reversal of Development in Argentina

Reversal of Development in Argentina

Modernization and the Working Class

Modernization and the Working Class

Radical Evil on Trial

Radical Evil on Trial

Reversal of Development in Argentina

Reversal of Development in Argentina

Modernization and the Working Class

Modernization and the Working Class

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