A Dictatorship Without Dictators: Rethinking the PRN (1976-83)Based on the book by A. Bonvecchi and E. Simison,How Did the Dictatorship Govern?
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https://doi.org/10.46468/rsaap.20.1.n1Keywords:
Dictatorship, Institutions, Military HistoryAbstract
These notes refer to the book published by Bonvecchi and Simison (2026) about the institutions that the PRN established to govern. The work offers an analysis of the functions carried out by the CAL to resolve disagreements among the competing factions within that regime and to accommodate business lobbying. And sheds light on the consistency with which the military adhered to those rules. This commentary, however, calls into question the way in which the competing factions are analyzed there, and seeks to show that the thesis on the centrality of the rules of division and control of power with which the PRN operated, far from weakening, is strengthened if one more carefully considers the depth of the internal crisis of those Armed Forces.
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