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Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) Book

This book, first published in 2000, analyzes the role of economically marginalized people in recent transitions to democratic rule.Read More

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    Analyzes the role of economically marginalized people in recent transitions to democratic rule.

  • Book Description

    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 DemocracyFrom 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.

  • 0521788870
  • 9780521788878
  • Elisabeth Jean Wood
  • 30 October 2000
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
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