The Ideology of State Terror : Economic Doctrine and Political Repression in Argentina and Peru

Departing from conventional wisdom, Pion-Berlin argues that the use of state terror by Latin American regimes often has been the product of intellectual constructs, not a reaction to dissent and violent upheavals by the popular classes or to pressures from the economically powerful classes. Contents Tables and Figures Acknowledgments PART ONE. THE FUNCTION AND ORIGIN OF IDEAS 1 Introduction 2 Structuralism, Monetarism, and Political Repression: An Interpretation 3 The International Monetary Fund PART TWO. ARGENTINA 4 Argentine State-Labor Relations and Economic Policies: A Brief Historical Review 5 Security Ideology, Liberal Economics, and the "Dirty War'' in Argentina, 1976-1983 PART THREE. PERU 6 The Limits to Democratic Rule: "Beltranismo" and the Politics of Austerity 7 The Revolution Unraveled: The Morales Bermúdez Government and Monetarist Policy PART FOUR. COMPARISONS AND CONCLUSIONS 8 Repression and Social Opposition in Comparative Perspective 9 Economic "Experts" Against Dominant Classes Appendix Bibliography Index