Book: Forging Democracy From Below: Insurgent Transitions In South Africa And El Salvador The recent replacement of authoritarian rule by democracy in both South Africa and El Salvador poses a puzzle: why did the powerful, 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 shows how popular mobilization--in El Salvador an effective guerilla army supported by peasant collaboration and in South Africa a powerful alliance of labor unions and poor urban dwellers--forced the elite to the bargaining table, and why a durable settlement and democratic government were the result.
Details of Book: Forging Democracy From Below: Insurgent Transitions In South Africa And El Salvador Book: Forging Democracy From Below: Insurgent Transitions In South Africa And El Salvador
Author: Elisabeth Jean Wood, Peter Lange, Robert H. Bates
ISBN: 0521788870
ISBN-13: 9780521788878
, 978-0521788878
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 272
Language: English