Michael Albertus

  • Are Economic Elites Anti-Democratic? Why Economic Elites May Support Democratization

    Are Economic Elites Anti-Democratic? Why Economic Elites May Support Democratization

    Are economic elites always anti-democratic? Not in some contexts. Structural changes in the Bolivian economy cultivated a new set of economic elites in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They typically supported the right-leaning Hugo Banzer, who led a series of coups against the left-leaning junta and established a tyrannical…