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Panamanian Students' Orientations toward Government and Democracy*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 January 2018
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Despite all the warnings that the Latin-American masses are aroused and demanding social justice, there is little empirical data demonstrating it although there are a few research reports suggesting the lack of validity of the general proposition, in some significant situations. For example, one survey report indicates that even with the rise of the militant, radical peasant leagues in northeast Brazil, the general rural populace has hardly any formulated opinion about nationalism or the Cuban Revolution. This absence of opinion suggests that the people are not yet either sufficiently agitated or aware of the relevance of government and politics in their lives for social revolution to emerge.
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The research reported on here was supported by a grant from the Office of International Programs and by the Bureau of Social and Political Research, Michigan State University.
References
1 Free, Lloyd A., The Political Psychology of Brazilians (Princeton: Institute for International Social Research, 1961).Google Scholar
2 Frank Bonilla, “Rio's Favelas: the Rural Slum Within the City,” an American Universities Field Staff Report, August, 1961.
3 See, for example, Frederick B. Pike's analysis of the political ideology of Chilean intellectuals, in “A Vista of Catastrophe: the Future of United States-Chilean Relations,” The Review of Politics, XXII (July, 1960), 393-418.
4 Pedro C. M. Teichert, citing Chase Manhattan Bank figures on economic growth in twelve Latin-American countries, shows Panama ranking last in average annual percentage increases in per capita national income and in capital investment. “… between 1945-1955 income has been going down while the average annual increase in the rate of capital investment has been negligible.” Economic Policy Revolution and Industrialization in Latin America (Bureau of Business Research, University of Mississippi, 1959), p. 31. See also “The Economic Development of Panama,” Economic Bulletin for Latin America, IV (October, 1959).