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Authoritarianism, Corporatism and Mobilization in Peru*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

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In recent years there has been a renewed interest among social scientists in authoritarianism, both as a type of regime and as a specific political approach to the problems of economic development and modernization. This revival of interest has been spurred in part by the proliferation of authoritarian regimes in the less developed countries and by the fact that many of these regimes are doing a more than creditable job in stimulating and managing the process of development and modernization.

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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1974

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