Popular Politics and Protest Event Analysis in Latin America ... - 9780826365682

Popular Politics and Protest Event Analysis in Latin AmericaAuthor(s): Moiss Arce, Takeshi Wada\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of New Mexico Press, United States\nImprint: University of New Mexico Press\nISBN-13: 9780826365682, 978-0826365682\nSynopsis\nThe arrival of democracy and globalization was a watershed moment for Latin America. It produced a changing political and economic environment, where democracy provided challengers with expanding political opportunities but globalization precipitated economic threats to livelihoods and human welfare. This changing environment removed the state from modes of political representation, such as urban labor movements and their affiliated mass-party organizations, while unleashing more pluralistic, heterogenous, and decentralized patterns of popular representation. Reducing its role in production, the state became mostly a regulator of economic activities.\n\nArce and Wada's volume examines the consequences of democracy and global.