Kurt Weyland

Making Waves

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines three waves of contention in Europe and Latin America across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9781107044746
• ISBN-10: 110704474X
• Artikelnr.: 40552560

Autorenporträt

Kurt Weyland is the Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Politics and professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin. He received his PhD in political science at Stanford University in 1991. Based on intensive field research in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru and Venezuela, he has written three books and numerous journal articles on democracy, economic and social policy, populism, and diffusion processes in Latin America. Many of his articles and books have drawn on cognitive-psychological insights about bounded rationality to shed new light on puzzling political phenomena, such as the adoption of risky reforms in fragile democracies and the rash, ill-considered emulation of foreign precedents and models in a wide range of countries.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: puzzling trends in waves of contention; 2. A new theory of
political diffusion: cognitive heuristics and organizational development;
3. Organizational development and changing modes of democratic contention;
4. The tsunami of 1848: precipitous diffusion in inchoate societies; 5. The
delayed wave of 1917-19: organizational leaders as guides of targeted
contention; 6. The slow but potent 'third wave' in South America: the
prevalence of negotiated transitions; 7. Crosscurrents of the third wave:
inter-organizational competition and negotiation in Chile; 8. Theoretical
conclusions and comparative perspectives.