Frondizi and the Politics of Developmentalism in Argentina, 1955-62

This book explores the dilemma facing Argentina after Pern's overthrow in 1955: how to consolidate a liberal-democratic republic after the breakdown of the old corporatist regime, when the necessary values and traditions had been eroded? Frondizi's, and his chief advisor Frigerio's, developmentalist style - a mixture of sheer voluntarism and undemocratic behaviour - and his abandonment of life-long principles, reinforced public suspicions of politics, marking in 1962 the beginning of a new cycle of military interventions that became the main feature of Argentine politics for the next two decades.

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Acknowledgements - Preface - The Revoluci n Libertadora, 1955-58: liberalism restored? - The Split of the Union Civica Radical - The Elections for the Constituent Assembly, the Peron Frondizi Pact and the Failure of the Revoluci n Libertadora - The Ideology of Developmentalism and the Development of the Ideology - The Implementation of the Developmentalist Economic Programme: The First Aid 'development' - The Developmentalist Strategy: the Internal Constraints. The Second Aim: 'legality' - Frondizi's Relations with the Political Parties - Government and Society: the External Constraints. The Third Aim: 'social peace' - A Gamble too many: the Elections of March 1962 and the Fall of Frondizi - Epilogue - Bibliography - Index