Affiliation:
1. Sociology, University of California, Merced
Abstract
Abstract
This chapter examines the basic dynamics of protest waves in Latin America—periods of widespread popular mobilization by multiple sectors across the national territory. Protest waves are relatively rate events, but when they do erupt, they result in profound social change as recently witnessed in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, and Panama. Special attention is given to the facilitating conditions associated with the outbreak of protest cycles. These conditions include elaborate organizational infrastructures, political liberalization, economic threats, repressive threats, and unifying frames. Some of the most common outcomes of protest waves are considered in terms of repression, political reforms, electoral success, radicalization, and revolution.
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