Politics and the Pink Tide – A Comparative Analysis of Protest in Latin America

Politics and the Pink TideA Comparative Analysis of Protest in Latin America\nAuthor(s): Kathleen Bruhn\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268207687, 978-0268207687\nSynopsis\nPolitics and the Pink Tide investigates the ways in which protest varied across five Latin American countries that elected leftist presidents during the Pink Tide.\n\n Kathleen Bruhn compares the differences in protest that occurred under the new leftist governments to their conservative, neoliberal predecessors, offering a wide-angle view into the complex relationships between neoliberalism, political party structures, and protest.\n\n Using individual and event-level data from Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, and Ecuador, Politics and the Pink Tide shows how economic policy choices and the links between leftist parties and social movements affect patterns of protest. For example, although more orthodox neoliberal.