Staging Contentious Politics in Mexico
Author : Jorge Cadena Roa
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Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Jorge Cadena Roa
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Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Erica S. Simmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2016-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107124859
Exploring marketization, local practices, and protests, this book shows how market-driven subsistence threats can be powerful loci for resistance movements.
Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0190255072
Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's Contentious Politics. The authors present a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of these very different sorts of contention. Drawing on many historical and contemporary cases, the book shows that similar principles describe and explain a wide variety of struggles as well as many more routine forms of politics. This fully revised and updated edition explores some of the major contentious events that have taken place since the original book was published in 2007, including the Occupy movement in the United States, the campaign for free elections in the city of Hong Kong, insurrections against Middle Eastern dictatorships, and armed conflicts on the border of the former Soviet Union. Comprehensive and empirically rich, Contentious Politics, 2nd edition remains a valuable resource for developing a more nuanced understanding of modern social movements and political conflicts for students and scholars.
Author : Kelley D. Strawn
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2005
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Author : Roderic Ai Camp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199703620
Since achieving independence from Spain and establishing its first constitution in 1824, Mexico has experienced numerous political upheavals. The country's long and turbulent journey toward democratic, representative government has been marked by a tension between centralized, autocratic governments (historically depicted as a legacy of colonial institutions) and federalist structures. The years since Mexico's independence have seen a major violent social revolution, years of authoritarian rule, and, finally, in the past two decades, the introduction of a fair and democratic electoral process. Over the course of the thirty-one essays in The Oxford Handbook of Mexican Politics some of the world's leading scholars of Mexico will provide a comprehensive view of the remarkable transformation of the nation's political system to a democratic model. In turn they will assess the most influential institutions, actors, policies and issues in its current evolution toward democratic consolidation. Following an introduction by Roderic Ai Camp, sections will explore the current state of Mexico's political development; transformative political institutions; the changing roles of the military, big business, organized labor, and the national political elite; new political actors including the news media, indigenous movements, women, and drug traffickers; electoral politics; demographics and political attitudes; and policy issues.
Author : Marco Giugni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108475906
Explains the character of contemporary protest politics through a micro-mobilization analysis of participation in street demonstrations.
Author : Erica S. Simmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316552861
Meaningful Resistance explores the origins and dynamics of resistance to markets through an examination of two social movements that emerged to voice and channel opposition to market reforms. Protests against water privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and rising corn prices in Mexico City, Mexico, offer a lens to analyze the mechanisms by which perceived, market-driven threats to material livelihood can prompt resistance. By exploring connections among marketization, local practices, and political protest, the book shows how the material and the ideational are inextricably linked in resistance to subsistence threats. When people perceive that markets have put subsistence at risk, material and symbolic worlds are both at stake; citizens take to the streets not only to defend their pocketbooks, but also their conceptions of community. The book advances contemporary scholarship by showing how attention to grievances in general, and subsistence resources in particular, can add explanatory leverage to analyses of contentious politics.
Author : Doug McAdam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 2001-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521011877
"Over the past two decades the study of social movements, revolution, democratization and other non-routine politics has flourished. And yet research on the topic remains highly fragmented, reflecting the influence of at least three traditional divisions. The first of these reflects the view that various forms of contention are distinct and should be studied independent of others. Separate literatures have developed around the study of social movements, revolutions and industrial conflict. A second approach to the study of political contention denies the possibility of general theory in deference to a grounding in the temporal and spatial particulars of any given episode of contention. The study of contentious politics are left to 'area specialists' and/or historians with a thorough knowledge of the time and place in question. Finally, overlaid on these two divisions are stylized theoretical traditions - structuralist, culturalist, and rationalist - that have developed largely in isolation from one another." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam021/2001016172.html.
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Page : 816 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Dissertation abstracts
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Author : Freedom House
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9781442217942
A survey of the state of human freedom around the world investigates such crucial indicators as the status of civil and political liberties and provides individual country reports.