Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador

by Elisabeth Jean Wood

Book Overview

The recent replacement of authoritarian rule by democracy in both South Africa and El Salvador poses a puzzle: why did the powerful and fervently 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, first published in 2000, shows how popular mobilization - in El Salvador an effective guerilla army supported by peasant collaboration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521788870
• ISBN13: 9780521788878
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"