Shaping The Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America (ND Kellogg Inst Int’l Studies)

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“This book is a disciplined, paired comparison of the eight Latin American countries with the longest history of urban commercial and industrial development—Brazil and Chile, Mexico and Venezuela, Uruguay and Columbia, Argentina and Peru. The authors show how and why state party responses to the emergence of an organized working class have been a very powerful in shaping political coalitions, party systems, patterns of stability or conflict and the broad contours of regimes and their changes. The argument is complex yet clear, the analysis systematic yet nuanced. The focal point is on autonomous political variables within particular socioeconomic contexts, the remedy of which is lengthy but rewarding…. Overall, a path-breaking volume.” —Foreign Affairs

“Excellent comparative-historical analysis of eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela) makes a speciality of emergence of different kinds of keep watch over and mobilization of the labor movement. By concentrating on alternative strategies of the State in shaping the labor movement, authors are ready to provide an explanation for different trajectories of national political change in counties with longest history of urban, commercial, and industrial development. Necessary and valuable work includes thesaurus of terms and extensive index (general and by country).”—Handbook of Latin American Studies
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