Theories on political repression in Latin America : conventional wisdom and an alternative

In: PS: political science & politics, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 49-56

Abstract

The author reviews some of the main currents of theoretical inquiry concerning the dramatic emergence of coercive regimes in Latin America during the last 15 years. Government terror often seems to be completely out of proportion to the opposition threat in Latin American countries. An alternative approach for reexamining the problem of repression is proposed in this paper