ABSTRACT
The prospects for democratic developmentalism in Latin America suffered a severe blow when John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. There is a factor operating in the late-1960s-early-1970s that helped influence the author decision to offer “The Corporative Model” as an alternative or supplemental explanation of Latin American development. Corporatism and its study have acquired a certain vogue of late; corporatist interpretations are “in,” a part of the prevailing “moda.” But these changes do not happen by accident; rather emphases and interpretations of societal and political phenomena have a “sociology” of their own, a “sociology of knowledge. Contrary to the “development” literature, these corporatist-organicist features did not seem to disappear as modernization went forward; if anything, they were strengthened.
