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Inter-American Politics: Limited Thoughts on the Unthinkable
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2011
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These are four books on inter-American relations, the focus necessarily requiring the authors to make an assessment of intra-national politics as well. With one partial exception (Powelson), none of them is based on anything approaching a theoretical orientation, and the frame of reference is not that of systematic empirical inquiry. Their value then for the student of comparative politics or international relations is extremely limited. All (except Vianna Moog) share a diffuse commitment to the prevailing U.S. value system which constrains their ability to define Latin American political realities. It is to this point that most of the present essay is directed.
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1 Pike, Fredrick B. has performed a similar highly creative service in Chile and the United States: 1880–1962 (Notre Dame 1963)Google Scholar, which focuses more on the psychology of the various social classes than does Powelson's work.
2 See Silvert, K. H., “Introduction” and “The Costs of Anti-Nationalism: Argentina,” in Expectant Peoples: Nationalism and Development, ed. by Silvert, (New York 1963)Google Scholar.
3 The comparative intra-national studies of Juan Linz (Spain) and intra- and international studies of Silvert and Frank Bonilla (Argentina, Chile, Brazil) demonstrate the value of operationalizing such major variables and submitting them to empirical assessment.
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