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During the 1930s, a wave of dictatorships swept over Latin America, each adopting new authoritarian institutions that were created in the political laboratory of the inter-war world, particularly the personalization of leadership, the single or dominant party, and the ‘organic-statist’ legislatures based on corporatist models. Latin America participated in what has been called the first wave of democratization and in the subsequent ‘reverse wave’ of the inter-war period. The paper deals with the diffusion of fascism and the radical right in Latin America.
During the 1930s, a wave of dictatorships swept over Latin America, each adopting new authoritarian institutions that were created in the political laboratory of the inter-war world, particularly the personalization of leadership, the single or dominant party, and the ‘organic-statist’ legislatures based on corporatist models. Latin America participated in what has been called the first wave of democratization and in the subsequent ‘reverse wave’ of the inter-war period. The paper deals with the diffusion of fascism and the radical right in Latin America.
