ABSTRACT

This chapter analyzes aspects of national development that seemed especially significant with regard to the main theme, and in particular the period following the achievement of national organization. According to the political aspects of mobilization theory, the greater the scale, discontinuity, and speed of change, and the shorter the duration of the process, the more conflictive it will be and the more difficult the integration and achievement of a relatively stable and lasting equilibrium. Political integration occurs when there are adequate organizational mechanisms for channeling mobilized sectors. If integration is considered as a global process— including not only political aspects but cultural and social ones as well—the significance of the first mobilization was the achievement of such integration in the central areas. In political terms the cycle was longer and more conflictive: only after about thirty years can it be considered closed, with the return of the justicialista coalition to the government.