ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the coalition of interests—including the military, civilian technocrats, international financial agencies, and domestic business groups—that coalesced around Fujimori after his election and helped forge a neoliberal economic program meant to "rationalize" the state administrative apparatus and strengthen the authority and effectiveness of the military and other state agencies. The institution most compromised by the neoliberal authoritarian move was the military. The transition from the developmentalist state to the neoliberal authoritarian state seemed complete. Fujimori's autogolpe of April 1992 was the culminating response of an attempt to restructure the state and its relations with society through a combination of neoliberal economic reforms and authoritarian political methods. The frustrations paved the way for the emergence of the new neoliberal-authoritarian coalition that was less interested in democratic procedures than what its members perceived as the survival of the existing order.
