Papa Doc's Feint : the misled opposition and the consolidation of Duvalier's rule in Haiti
It presents the case of the coming to and consolidation of power by François Duvalier s authoritarian regime in Haiti in the late 50s and early 60s. The rise of Duvalierism appears to be in part due to a sequence of strategic interactions among Duvalier and his opponents: even though opponents remai...
| Autor principal: | Peschanski, João Alexandre |
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| Tipo de documento: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | English |
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2017
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It presents the case of the coming to and
consolidation of power by François Duvalier s authoritarian regime
in Haiti in the late 50s and early 60s. The rise of Duvalierism
appears to be in part due to a sequence of strategic interactions
among Duvalier and his opponents: even though opponents
remained stronger than the incumbent, the latter managed to
overcome their frequent attacks by feinting to be weaker than
he was and preventing them to unite and coordinate their fight
against him. These opponents, who were in general members
of the traditional economic and political elite of Haiti, expected
to gain control over the government and had an incentive not to
coordinate against Duvalier in order to monopolize such control.
This strategic sequence, analytically and descriptively summarized,
appears to have been at the origin of the consolidation of Duvalier s
rule in Haiti. |
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