The Military in Politics ：Changing Patterns in Brazil ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle ：Changing Patterns in Brazil

Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library

Author： Stepan Alfred C.;;;

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2015

E-ISBN: 9781400868704

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691021706

Subject： D Political and Legal

Keyword：政治、法律

Language： ENG

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Description

The nature of the military institution in Brazil, its relations with civilian governments up to 1964, and its use of power since the coup of that year are examined by Alfred Stepan. Throughout his study, while looking at the Brazilian experience, he tests and reformulates implicit and explicit models, propositions, and middle-range hypotheses in the literature of civil-military relations and in political development theory.

Professor Stepan's analysis suggests that many of the expectations and hypotheses held by theoreticians and policymakers about the capabilities of the military in modernization need to be seriously qualified. His discussion of the socio-economic origins and career patterns of the officer corps and of the ideological changes within the Brazilian army makes extensive and systematic use of previously unexploited data: Brazilian military academy files, editorials, interviews with military and civilian leaders. Throughout, the experiences of Asian and African countries are compared to that of Brazil, thus providing a wide comparative framework.

Contents: PART I: The Military in Politics: The Institutional Background. 1. Military Organizational Unity and National Orientation: Hypotheses and Qualifications. 2. The Size of the Military: Its Relevance for Political Behavior. 3. Social Origins and Internal Organization of the Officer Corps: Their Political Significance. PART II: The "Moderating Pattern" of Civil-Military Relations: Brazil, 1945-1964

Chapter

Cover

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I The Military in Politics: The Institutional Background

1. Military Organizational Unity and National Orientation: Hypotheses and Qualifications

2. The Size of the Military: Its Relevance for Political Behavior

3. Social Origins and Internal Organization of the Officer Corps: Their Political Significance

Part II The "Moderating Pattern" of Civil-Military Relations: Brazil, 1945-1964

4. Civilian Aspects of the "moderating Pattern"

5. The Functioning of the "moderating Pattern" a Comparative Analysis of Five Coups, 1945-1964

Part III The Breakdown of the "Moderating Pattern" of Civil-Military Relations and the Emergence of Military Rule

6. The Growing Sense of Crisis in the Regime, 1961-1964: Its Impact on the "Moderating Pattern"

7. The Impact of Political and Economic Crises on the Military: Growth of Institutional Fears, 1961-1964

8. The Impact of Political and Economic Crises on the Military: The Escola Superior De Guerra and the Development of a New Military Ideology

9. The Assumption of Power-The Revolution of 1964

Part IV The Brazilian Military in Power, 1964-1968: A Case Study of the Political Problems of Military Government

10. The Military in Power: First Political Decisions and Problems

11. Military Unity and Military Succession: An Elite Analysis of the Castello Bronco Government

12. The Military as an Institution Versus the Military as Government

Conclusion

Appendix: Researching a Semiclosed Institution- A Note on Sources and Field Techniques

Selected Bibliography

Index

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