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This book explores the links between changing types of authoritarian rule and shifting public policies in Argentina from 1930 to 1970. Two contrasting arguments - a who governs authoritarian and a who cares who governs bureaucratic model - are integrated in a formulation that predicts the contexts in which the contrasting theses should be useful for understanding public policies.

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• Foreword(p. ix)
• 1 Introduction: the Study of Changing Authoritarian Political Systems(p. 1)
• 2 Setting the Stage: Political Change and Public Policy(p. 19)
• 3 The Theoretical Framework: Authoritarianism, Incrementalism, and Constraints on Decisionmakers(p. 23)
• 4 Who Governed When in Argentina? Coalitions, Presidents, Cabinet Officers, and Public Employees(p. 45)
• 5 Policies Toward the State, the Military, and Society(p. 67)
• 6 Industrialization and Foreign Policies(p. 81)
• 7 Labor Policies(p. 111)
• 8 Expenditure and Revenue Policies(p. 135)
• 9 Conclusion(p. 177)
• References(p. 185)
• Index(p. 199)
• About the Book and the Authors(p. 206)

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Most explores the links between changing types of authoritarian rule and shifting public policies in Argentina from 1930 to 1970. Two contrasting arguments--a "who governs" authoritarian model and a "who cares who governs" bureaucratic model--are integrated in a formulation that predicts the contexts in which the contrasting theses should be useful for understanding public policies. Most's study indicates that, although dominant coalitions and political elites were important in determining what policies were made, for whom, and at whose expense, during the early part of the 1930-1970 interval, "who governed" at the top lost much of its significance once the Argentine system became highly bureaucratized, political elites became unstable, resources ceased to be readily available, and a stalemate developed among opposing nonbureaucratic actors in the policy-making arena. As Most predicts in his theoretical framework, coalitions and leaders came and went but public policy became increasingly based on what had been done before. In an introductory chapter Luigi Manzetti situates Most's work within the context of the literature of the last half decade on authoritarian rule and public policy, and relates it to events in Argentina in the '70s and '80s. The book is an important contribution to understanding both the politics and economic decision-making process in a complex Latin American state. Excellent index and bibliography; clear graphs and tables. Graduate level. -R. Roett, Johns Hopkins University