Mobilizing democracy : globalization and citizen protest /
Paul Almeida
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014
- xvi, 198 p. : ill.; 23 cm
- Themes in global social change .
Introduction: globalization and citizen protest -- A theory of local opposition to globalization -- Costa Rica, the prototype for mobilization against globalization -- El Salvador : oppositional party and protest campaigns -- Panama : the legacy of military populism -- Nicaragua : third world revolution confronts globalization -- Anti-neoliberal resistance in Guatemala and Honduras -- Conclusion : state-led development legacies in the era of global capital
Written in clear, accessible prose, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars in the fields of political science, social movements, anthropology, Latin American studies, and labor studies.
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