Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El SalvadorCambridge University Press, 2000 M10 30 - 247 páginas The recent replacement of authoritarian rule by democracy in both South Africa and El Salvador poses a puzzle: why did the powerful, anti-democratic elites of these countries abandon death squads, apartheid, and the other tools of political repression and take a chance on democracy? Forging Democracy From Below shows how popular mobilization--in El Salvador an effective guerilla army supported by peasant collaboration and in South Africa a powerful alliance of labor unions and poor urban dwellers--forced the elite to the bargaining table, and why a durable settlement and democratic government were the result. |
Contenido
FROM CIVIL WAR TO DEMOCRACY | 3 |
FROM CONSERVATIVE MODERNIZATION TO CIVIL WAR | 25 |
THE STRUCTURAL FOUNDATION OF A PACT THE TRANSFORMATION OF ELITE INTERESTS | 52 |
NEGOTIATING A DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION TO END CIVIL WAR | 78 |
APARTHEID CONSERVATIVE MODERNIZATION AND MOBILIZATION | 111 |
THE CHALLENGE TO ECONOMIC ELITE INTERESTS | 143 |
FROM RECALCITRANCE TO COMPROMISE | 169 |
THE INSURGENT PATH TO DEMOCRACY IN OLIGARCHIC SOCIETIES | 197 |
THE LEGACY OF DEMOCRACY FORGED FROM BELOW | 209 |
A Model of Negotiated Resolution of Civil Conflicts | 213 |
Note on Statistical Sources | 219 |
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Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El ... Elisabeth Jean Wood Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
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