Reorganizing Popular Politics: Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America

by Ruth Berins Collier

Book Overview

A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find political representation. With the political and economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, networks of community-based associations and nongovernmental organizations replaced party-affiliated labor unions as the predominant organizations to which the lower classes turned. This volume examines the new "interest regime"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271035617
• ISBN13: 9780271035611
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"