Forging Democracy from Below
Subtitle: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521788878
Subjects: Political economy; Political structures: democracy; Political participation; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; South Africa; Politics/International Relations; El Salvador; Southern Africa; Politics - Current Events; History & Theory - General; Political Process - General; Political Science / General; Political participation--South Africa; Democracy
First sentence: As the civil war in El Salvador drew to a close, peasants allied with the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation, FMLN) throughout the province of Usulutan raced to consolidate their claims to de facto property rights, enclosing occupied properties with barbed wire, taking over additional properties, and patrolling boundaries against the return of the erstwhile landlords.