The purpose of the essay is twofold: a) explore the ability of S. Huntington's model of political development for societies in process of modernization to explain the Argentine political history in 1880-1955; b) prove the hypothesis that mass pretorianism is inherently unstable. We conclude the...

The purpose of the essay is twofold: a) explore the ability of S. Huntington's model of political development for societies in process of modernization to explain the Argentine political history in 1880-1955; b) prove the hypothesis that mass pretorianism is inherently unstable. We conclude the...

El modelo agro-exportador, que supone un régimen de libre comercio, y el milagro económico de fines del siglo XIX están firmemente asociados en la literatura y en las nociones establecidas de la sociedad argentina. Queda incluso la impresión de que la causa del milagro económico fue el...