March 9- March - March 16 Flashcards
Context for populism
- Latin American populism mostly urban
- Height 20s-60s
- Accompanies processes of industrialization and urbanization
- Involve middle class in politics
What is populism
- Favors common man in contrast with elite
- Appeals to emotions of masses
- Collective consciousness
- Contrast with status quo
- Sometimes democratic or authoritarian
- Charismatic leaders
- Representation
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
-Give me balcony and I will become president
19th vs 20th century populism
- Emerged from activist workign class and socialist movements
- Drew heavily on trade unions for rhetoric
- Used state apparatuses to meet demands of movements
Juan Domingo Peron
- emerged out of political system without middle class (Hipolito Yrigoyen)- many uprisings
- 2 presidential terms (50s then 70s before death)
- Military officer with large industrial working class base, nationalist
Edwin williamson
-Quote about intense nationalism which drew from across political spectrum, causing him to have policy incoherence and lack of unity
Perons Agenda and pillars
- Attack free trade export economy, promote independence
- Control military by hand selecting leadership
- Controling unions
Eva peron
- Populist leader
- Humble background, cult following, actress
- Followers descamisados
- Madonna
Santa Evita
- Tomas Eloy martinez, 1995
- Body of eva became like legend while juan decayed
Peronist party populism
- Community
- New argentina
- Public relations- parades, demonstrations, sports
Decline of Peron
- Projects lacked stability
- Made hefty promises, lack of follow through
- unable to court elite
- energy and food shortages could not sustain growth
Vargas
- Brazilian populist
- Emerged from Rio grande do sul
- Nationalization projects (mostly urban) like oil rail, electric, steel
Vargas and state terror
- Suppression of social forces that disagreed with him- communists, military, urbanites, labor movement
- Suspended civil rights, jailed people
- Estado Novo- new state
Downfall of Vargas
- Division in congress
- Inflation
- More international business
- Corruption
Neo populism
- Zealous leaders
- Abuses of power
- Personalistic, charismatic
- Collective communication (chavez television program)
Context of Spanish Civil war
- Spanish american war ends spanish empire
- Generation of 98 emerges- intellectuals who wanted liberal change
- Sense of moral political and social crisis
Miguel de Unamuno
- Gen of 98
- Suffering makes us people
- Life is doubt
- Fight destiny
- Secular
Precurser to civil war
- Ideological shift due to defeat
- American and Japanese victories shunned- still belief of superiority
- Post ww1 decline of economy and flu
- Spain economically stagnant
General Miguel Primo de Rivera
- Appointed by alfonso XIII
- Country, religion, monarchy
- Won in Morocco
- Challenged by bankruptcy of state
Second Republic
- Alfonso leaves country
- Modernity and social Justice
- A lot of social reform, autonomy of historic regions
Opposition to republic
- Catholic church feared power would diminish
- Traditional factions (elites, clergy) threatened
- Thought freethinkers, protestants, atheists
- Landowners and industrialists
- Balfour- second republic anti-Spain
Initial leadership of republic
- Range of politics of leaders
- Turn corrupt system into pluralist democracy
- Zamora succeeded by azana- “spain is no longer catholic”
Challenges to second republic
- Recession
- Opposition from elites
- Weak state hold on society
- Not uniform modernization
- Powerful rural elite
- Fragmented, divided
Result of challenges to republic
- Right wing party CEDA victory
- Uprising in asturias and catalonia
- Unrest in countryside
- Start of civil war