Civil Society, Popular Protest, and Democracy in Latin America

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dc.contributor.advisorAlford, C. Freden_US
dc.contributor.authorFrajman, Eduardo Ohaven_US
dc.contributor.departmentGovernment and Politicsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-02-01T20:21:00Z
dc.date.available2007-02-01T20:21:00Z
dc.date.issued2006-10-21en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation addresses the relationship between mobilized coalitions of movements and organizations emerging from civil society and the promotion of democracy. It offers a critique of major works in political theory that see in civil society the potential to transform democratic politics, primarily through the protection of civil society from the state in order to allow for the development of new identities and forms of sociability. The three main theoretical objections to these works involve their focus on state-civil society relations at the expense of economic factors, the presupposition that consensus is present in civil society, and the assumption that mobilized civil societies are fueled from the grassroots. Four recent cases of civil society mobilizations from Latin America, in Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Bolivia, are presented to illustrate the deficiencies of current theoretical approaches to civil society. The case studies show the importance of material conditions and the framing of specific grievances in the formation of popular movements grounded in civil society.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/4087
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPolitical Science, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCivil societyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpopular protesten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLatin Americaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArgentinaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCosta Ricaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBoliviaen_US
dc.titleCivil Society, Popular Protest, and Democracy in Latin Americaen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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