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Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of Military Regimes, 1880-1940

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Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of Military Regimes, 1880-1940
Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of Military Regimes, 1880-1940

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Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of Military Regimes, 1880-1940

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In , Erik Ching seeks to explain the origins of the military regime that came to power in 1931. Based on his comprehensive survey of the extant documentary record in El Salvador’s national archive, Ching argues that El Salvador was typified by a longstanding tradition of authoritarianism dating back to the early- to mid-nineteenth century. The basic structures of that system were based on patron-client relationships that wove local, regional, and national political actors into complex webs of rival patronage networks. Decidedly nondemocratic in practice, the system nevertheless exhibited highly paradoxical traits: it remained steadfastly loyal to elections as the mechanism by which political aspirants acquired office, and it employed a political discourse laden with appeals to liberty and free suffrage. That blending of nondemocratic authoritarianism with populist reformism and rhetoric set the precedent for military rule for the next fifty years.

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