From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521855020)

Based on extensive original research and detailed historical case studies, this book links historical institutional analysis and social movement theory to a study of political systems in which new ethnic cleavages have emerged. It studies the surprising transformation of indigenous peoples' movements into viable political parties in the 1990s in four Latin American countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela) and their failure to succeed in two others (Argentina, Peru). The study concludes with the democratic implications of the emergence of this phenomenon in the context of declining public support for parties.

Author: Donna Lee Van Cott
ISBN-10: 0521855020
ISBN-13: 9780521855020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2005
Pages: 302
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.46w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2006 pg. 1898