TY - BOOK AU - O`Donnell,Guillermo A AU - Schmitter,Philippe C AU - Whitehead,Laurence ED - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. TI - Transitions from authoritarian rule: Latin America SN - 0801831881 AV - JL966 .T74 1986 U1 - 321.09098 22 PY - 1986/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Representative government and representation KW - Latin America KW - Case studies KW - Authoritarianism KW - Democracy N1 - Papers originally commissioned for a conference sponsored by the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars between 1979 and 1981; Also published as part 2 in the one-vol. work Transitions from authoritarian rule; Includes index; Bibliography: p. 221-236; Introduction to the Latin American cases / Guillermo O'Donnell -- Political cycles in Argentina since 1955 / Marcelo Cavarozzi -- Bolivia's failed democratization, 1977-1980 / Laurence Whitehead -- The "liberalization" of authoritarian rule in Brazil / Luciano Martins -- The political evolution of the Chilean military regime and problems in the transition to democracy / Manuel Antonio Garretón -- Political liberalization in an authoritarian regime; the case of Mexico / Kevin J. Middlebrook -- Military interventions and "transfer of power to civilians" in Peru / Julio Cotler -- Uruguay's transition from collegial military-technocratic rule / Charles G. Gillespie -- Petroleum and political pacts : the transition to democracy in Venezuela / Terry Lynn Karl ER -