António Costa Pinto
Latin America in the Era of Fascism
During the 1930s, a wave of dictatorships swept over Latin America, each adopting new authoritarian institutions that were created in the political laboratory of the inter-war world, particularly the personalization of leadership, the single or dominant party, and the ‘organic-statist’ legislatures based on corporatist models. Latin America participated in what has been called the first wave of democratization and in the subsequent ‘reverse wave’ of the inter-war period. The paper deals with the diffusion of fascism and the radical right in Latin America.
António Costa Pinto has a doctorate from the European University Institute, Florence (1992). He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University (1993), Georgetown University (2004), a senior associate member at St Antony’s College, Oxford (1995), and a senior visiting fellow at Princeton University (1996), at the University of California, Berkeley (2000 and 2010), and at New York University (2017). He is a past president of the Portuguese Political Science Association. His research interests include authoritarianism, democratization and transitional justice in new democracies, the European Union, political elites, the quality of democracy, and the comparative study of political change. Among his many books are The Blue Shirts: Portuguese Fascism in Inter-war Europe (2000); Corporatism and Fascism: The Corporatist Wave in Europe (2017); and Latin American Dictatorships in the Era of Fascism: The Corporatist Wave (2020).