Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier are political scientists who use comparative historical research to discover and evaluate patterns and sources of political change. Their work is an overall analysis of Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, and Mexico, plus case studies of four distinct pairs in that group: Chile/Brazil, Uruguay/Colombia, Argentina/Peru, and Venezuela/Mexico. In addition, the Colliers meticulously describe and discuss their methods for the study including the limitations of their approach. The authors specifically focus on why and how organized labor movements in the first half of the twentieth century were incorporated into the political process in the eight Latin American countries they study. They analyze the role played by political parties, central government control, worker mobilization, and conflict between radical vs. centrist political philosophies and activities.

Shaping the Political Arena (Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development)

History

Collier, Ruth Berins

Collier, David

Americas

University of Notre Dame Press

Regimes in Tropical Africa: Changing Forms of Supremacy, 1945-1975

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

University of California Press

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

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 that have provided the main empirical base for recent theorizing, namely, Western Europe and South America, this book delineates a more complex and varied set of patterns. The volume explores democratization through a comparative analysis that examines the role of labor in relation to elite strategies in both contemporary and historical perspectives.

Paths toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Sociology

Cambridge University Press

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 that have provided the main empirical base for recent theorizing, namely, Western Europe and South America, this book delineates a more complex and varied set of patterns. The volume explores democratization through a comparative analysis that examines the role of labor in relation to elite strategies in both contemporary and historical perspectives.

Illuminating the dynamics of political change in Latin America during the twentieth century, this ambitious work traces the impact of a "critical juncture": a period of fundamental political reorientation in which countries are set on distinct trajectories of change. Here Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier focus on the response of national states to the newly radicalized working class and organized labor movements that arose earlier in this century in the course of capitalist modernization. They examine the incorporation of the labor movement, showing how national leaders--including Percn in Argentina and Vargas in Brazil--sought to impose a new political and institutional framework on working-class politics. Through a comparative-historical analysis of eight countries, the authors show how different strategies of control and mobilization left distinct legacies in terms of political coalitions, party systems, and modes of political conflict. These outcomes in turn influenced patterns of regime change, including the democratic or authoritarian path each country followed through the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. The concluding chapter asks whether Latin America may now be entering a new critical juncture.

Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America

Princeton University Press

Illuminating the dynamics of political change in Latin America during the twentieth century, this ambitious work traces the impact of a "critical juncture": a period of fundamental political reorientation in which countries are set on distinct trajectories of change. Here Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier focus on the response of national states to the newly radicalized working class and organized labor movements that arose earlier in this century in the course of capitalist modernization. They examine the incorporation of the labor movement, showing how national leaders--including Percn in Argentina and Vargas in Brazil--sought to impose a new political and institutional framework on working-class politics. Through a comparative-historical analysis of eight countries, the authors show how different strategies of control and mobilization left distinct legacies in terms of political coalitions, party systems, and modes of political conflict. These outcomes in turn influenced patterns of regime change, including the democratic or authoritarian path each country followed through the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. The concluding chapter asks whether Latin America may now be entering a new critical juncture.

Social Sciences

Princeton Univ Pr

The Contradictory Alliance: State-Labor Relations and Regime Change in Mexico (RESEARCH SERIES (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY INTERNATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES))

Univ of California Intl &

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Shaping the Political Arena (Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development)

Regimes in Tropical Africa: Changing Forms of Supremacy, 1945-1975

Regimes in Tropical Africa: Changing Forms of Supremacy, 1945-1975

Regimes in Tropical Africa: Changing Forms of Supremacy, 1945-1975

Paths toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Paths toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America

Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America

The Contradictory Alliance: State-Labor Relations and Regime Change in Mexico (RESEARCH SERIES (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY INTERNATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES))