| Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador Contributor(s): Wood, Elisabeth Jean (Author), Lange, Peter (Editor), Bates, Robert H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521783232 ISBN-13: 9780521783231 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $68.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy - Political Science | Comparative Politics - Political Science | Political Process - General |
| Dewey: 320.968 |
| LCCN: 00023018 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.26 lbs) 274 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The recent replacement of authoritarian rule by democracy in both South Africa and El Salvador poses a puzzle: why did the powerful, anti-democratic elites of these countries abandon death squads, apartheid, and the other tools of political repression and take a chance on democracy? Forging Democracy From Below shows how popular mobilization--in El Salvador an effective guerilla army supported by peasant collaboration and in South Africa a powerful alliance of labor unions and poor urban dwellers--forced the elite to the bargaining table, and why a durable settlement and democratic government were the result. |