Urban protest in Mexico and Brazil
By: Kathleen Bruhn.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780521881296
Subjects: Protest movements -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- Case studies; Protest movements -- Brazil -- São Paulo -- Case studies; Municipal officials and employees -- Labor unions -- Latin America -- Political activity -- Cross-cultural studies; Citizens' associations -- Latin America -- Cross-cultural studies; Political parties -- Mexico -- Mexico City; Political parties -- Brazil -- São Paulo; Mexico City (Mexico) -- Politics and government; São Paulo (Brazil) -- Politics and government
Genres: Case studies.; Cross-cultural studies.
Description: "Why do social organizations decide to protest instead of working through institutional channels? This book draws hypotheses from three standard models of contentious political action - POS, resource mobilization, and identity - and subjects them to a series of qualitative and quantitative tests. The results have implications for social movement theory, studies of protest, and theories of public policy and agenda setting. The characteristics of movement organizations - type of resources, internal leadership competition, and identity - shape their inherent propensity to protest. Party alliance does not constrain protest, even when the party ally wins power. Instead, protest becomes a key part of organizational maintenance, producing constant incentives to protest that do not reflect changing external conditions. Nevertheless, organizations do respond to changes in the political context, governmental cycles in particular. In the first year of a new government, organizations have strong incentives to protest in order to establish their priority in the policy agenda."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Riding the tiger : popular organizations, political parties and urban protest; title: Setting the stage : research design, case selection, and methods; title: The limits of loyalty; title: A union born out of struggles : the Union of Municipal Public Servants of São Paulo; title: Partisan loyalty and corporatist control : the Unified Union of Workers of the Government of the Federal District; title: Clients or citizens? : neighborhood associations in Mexico City; title: Favelas and cortiços : neighborhood organizing in São Paulo; title: The dynamics of protest.