Fascists or Revolutionaries ? Left and Right Politics of the Rural Poor

This article compares rural support for authoritarian populism in the new democracies in western Europe and...

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Autor principal:	Leslie, Anderson
Formato:	Working Paper
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	Universidad de Belgrano Facultad de Estudios para Graduados 2012
Materias:	democracia democratizacion politica fascismo revolucion politica policy political revolution fascism democratization democracy
Acceso en línea:	http://repositorio.ub.edu.ar/handle/123456789/719
Aporte de:	Repositorio Institucional - Universidad de Belgrano (UB) de Universidad de Belgrano

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Sumario:	This article compares rural support for authoritarian populism in the new democracies in western Europe and Latin America. Literature on mass-based peasant revolutions sees the rural poor as revolutionaries, but an earlier, Marxist view saw them as counter-revolutionary. What can we expect of rural people in new democracies? The article examines four cases of rural support for authoritarian populism and contrasts them with patterns of peasant leftism. Two factors explain the difference: (1) background factors (economic and social relations, the nature of land tenure) and (2) foreground factors (political leadership, organizational style, and rhetoric). The article considers these conclusions for the contemporary international context and draws implications for democratization today.