Paths toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South AmericaCambridge University Press, 13 sept 1999 The question of whether democratization is an elite-led process from above or a popular triumph from below continues to be an area of contention among political scientists. Examining the experiences of countries which have provided the main empirical base for recent theorizing, namely, Western Europe and South America in the 19th and early 20th centuries and again in the 1970s and 1980s, this book delineates a more complex and varied set of patterns. The volume explores the politics of democratization through a comparative analysis that examines the role of labor in relation to elite strategies in both contemporary and historical perspectives. In her detailed analysis, Professor Collier also describes multiple patterns within each historical period, challenges conventional understandings of these events, and recaptures a role for unions and labor-based parties in contemporary processes of democratization. |
Índice
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EliteLed Reform in Early Democratization | 33 |
Political Calculations and Socialist Parties | 77 |
Labor Action in Recent Democratization | 110 |
The Working Class and Democratization | 166 |
Bibliography | 199 |
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Términos y frases comunes
activity actors analysis antecedent regimes arena of action Argentina authoritarian authoritarian incumbents authoritarian regime became Belgium Bolivia bourgeoisie Brazil central Chile coalition conservative Constituent Assembly constitution context countries coup demands democracy democratic reform democratic regime democratic transition democratization process Denmark destabilized economic Ecuador elections electoral reform elite strategies enfranchised established favored Finland forces framework franchise full manhood suffrage groups historical important initial institutions issue Joint Projects labor movement labor organizations labor protest labor role labor-based parties leaders liberal liberal democracy major manhood suffrage mass ment middle-sector moderate negotiations opposition Parliament parliamentary sovereignty patterns of democratization percent period played popular Portugal pro-democratic process of democratization PSOE radical regime change repression Republican restricted Revolution Rueschemeyer SDAP sectors Social Democrats social movements Spain strike support mobilization Sweden tion transitions literature union movement universal suffrage University Press urban Uruguay Valenzuela Venstre vote workers working-class working-class organizations