Kathleen Bruhn

Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzes how protest became a key part of organizational maintenance and how organizations use protest as a political tool.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780521881296
• ISBN-10: 0521881293
• Artikelnr.: 23497695

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Bruhn is a leading expert on the Mexican Left. Her first book, Taking on Goliath, analyzes the emergence and early consolidation of the primary Left party in Mexico, the PRD. She is also the author, with Daniel C. Levy, of a textbook on Mexican politics, Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development. She has lived for extended periods in both Mexico and Brazil. She has three times won fellowships to write at the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies at UCSD and once won a fellowship at the Kellogg Center at the University of Notre Dame, also to write. Her research has been supported by the Stanford Institute for International Studies, the MacArthur Foundation, the UC Council on Research, the UC Faculty Senate, and the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research at UCSB. She is currently an associate professor of political science at UCSB.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Riding the tiger: urban protest and political parties
2. Setting the stage: research design, case selection, and methods
3. The limits of loyalty
4. A union born out of struggles: the union of municipal public servants of Sao Paulo (SINDSEP)
5. Partisan loyalty and corporatist control: the unified union of workers of the government of the federal district (SUTGDF)
6. Clients or citizens? Neighborhood associations in Mexico City
7. Favelas and corticos: neighborhood organizing in Sao Paulo
8. The dynamics of protest.