Political Forces in Argentina Book

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	Abbreviations
	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
	Geography	2
	Population	3
	Social and Economic Classes	4
	Income Distribution and Poverty	8
	Political Development	9
Ch. 2	The Political Party System	55
	The Major Parties and Their Programs	55
	Minor Parties	68
	Composition of Party Elites	72
	The Major Defects of the Party System	76
Ch. 3	The Armed Forces	89
	Military Recruitment	90
	Types of Political Activity	92
	The Causes of Military Coups	93
	Factionalism	103
	The Process of National Reorganization	108
Ch. 4	The Labor Movement	121
	The Development of the Trade Union Movement	122
	Labor and Peronism	124
	Post-1955 Factionalism	127
	Political Methods	136
Ch. 5	The Church and Catholic Lay Groups	143
	Church and State	144
	The Christian Democrats	148
	The Catholic Nationalists	152
	The Catholic Left	154
	Third World Priests	155
	The Church and the Proceso	157
	The Church and the Return to Democracy	161
Ch. 6	Students and Politics	167
	The University Student	168
	Student Organizations	170
	Politicization	173
	Political Efficacy	174
	Student Politics after 1983	180
	Student Elections, 1983-1990	184
	Epilogue	186
	Bibliography	189
	Index	195