Daniel Gunnar Kressel is a research fellow at the Koch History Centre at the University of Oxford, and specializes in the history of transnational right-wing ideologies and networks in Latin America, Spain, and Israel.

'Through astute research and groundbreaking analysis, this book reveals the post-fascist networks that shaped a conservative brand of modernization across the Atlantic. Kressel shows how technocratic authoritarianism emerged and persists in contemporary democracies in Argentina, Chile and Spain. It offers a new historical perspective on the roots of neoliberalism.' Pablo Piccato, Columbia University

• Introduction: turning fascism into authoritarian technocracy; 1. In defense of 'Hispanidad: confirming the mythological foundations for Hispanic technocracy (1945–1959); 2. Technocratic Spain: the opus dei and the making of the 'second Francoist era' (1957–1969); 3. Juan Carlos Onganía's 'Argentine Revolution': Hispanic technocracy to surpass post-fascist populism (1956–1970); 4. Augusto Pinochet dictatorship: Chile's neoliberal variant of Hispanic technocracy (1964–1977); 5. Democracies of the third wave: Hispanic technocracy's decline as a state model (1973–1988); Conclusion: towards a theory of Hispanic technocracy; Notes; Works Consulted; Index.

Daniel Gunnar Kressel is a research fellow at the Koch History Centre at the University of Oxford, and specializes in the history of transnational right-wing ideologies and networks in Latin America, Spain, and Israel.

'Through astute research and groundbreaking analysis, this book reveals the post-fascist networks that shaped a conservative brand of modernization across the Atlantic. Kressel shows how technocratic authoritarianism emerged and persists in contemporary democracies in Argentina, Chile and Spain. It offers a new historical perspective on the roots of neoliberalism.' Pablo Piccato, Columbia University

• Introduction: turning fascism into authoritarian technocracy; 1. In defense of 'Hispanidad: confirming the mythological foundations for Hispanic technocracy (1945–1959); 2. Technocratic Spain: the opus dei and the making of the 'second Francoist era' (1957–1969); 3. Juan Carlos Onganía's 'Argentine Revolution': Hispanic technocracy to surpass post-fascist populism (1956–1970); 4. Augusto Pinochet dictatorship: Chile's neoliberal variant of Hispanic technocracy (1964–1977); 5. Democracies of the third wave: Hispanic technocracy's decline as a state model (1973–1988); Conclusion: towards a theory of Hispanic technocracy; Notes; Works Consulted; Index.

Daniel Gunnar Kressel is a research fellow at the Koch History Centre at the University of Oxford, and specializes in the history of transnational right-wing ideologies and networks in Latin America, Spain, and Israel.

'Through astute research and groundbreaking analysis, this book reveals the post-fascist networks that shaped a conservative brand of modernization across the Atlantic. Kressel shows how technocratic authoritarianism emerged and persists in contemporary democracies in Argentina, Chile and Spain. It offers a new historical perspective on the roots of neoliberalism.' Pablo Piccato, Columbia University

• Introduction: turning fascism into authoritarian technocracy; 1. In defense of 'Hispanidad: confirming the mythological foundations for Hispanic technocracy (1945–1959); 2. Technocratic Spain: the opus dei and the making of the 'second Francoist era' (1957–1969); 3. Juan Carlos Onganía's 'Argentine Revolution': Hispanic technocracy to surpass post-fascist populism (1956–1970); 4. Augusto Pinochet dictatorship: Chile's neoliberal variant of Hispanic technocracy (1964–1977); 5. Democracies of the third wave: Hispanic technocracy's decline as a state model (1973–1988); Conclusion: towards a theory of Hispanic technocracy; Notes; Works Consulted; Index.