Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America

by David Collier and Ruth Berins Collier

Book Overview

Illuminating the dynamics of political change in Latin America during the twentieth century, this ambitious work traces the impact of a "critical juncture": a period of fundamental political reorientation in which countries are set on distinct trajectories of change. Here Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier focus on the response of national states to the newly radicalized working class and organized labor movements that arose earlier in this century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691023131
• ISBN13: 9780691023137
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 902 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"