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Electoral Aspects of Peronism, 1946-1954

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Walter Little
Walter Little*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Theory and Institutions, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Although it is of importance for any understanding of the Peronist regime as a whole, little is known in detail about the social character of the popular support upon which the regime was based. This state of affairs is not as paradoxical as it might at first seem. In part it is a reflection of the fact that the continued political importance of the Peronist movement has meant that until recently the debate over Peronism has been polemical in nature and that opportunities for dispassionate analysis have been correspondingly restricted. For example, to apologists for Peronism, the popular support that it enjoyed is evidence merely that it represented a profound revolution in social and economic priorities which was fully understood and appreciated by the people themselves. To its detractors it is evidence of little more than the manipulation of the ignorant, corruption of the venal, and coercion of the educated. To both groups it has been a premise for further argument rather than an object worthy of study in its own right.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , August 1973 , pp. 267 - 284
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1973

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