Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil
Author： Kathleen Bruhn;
Publisher： Cambridge University Press
Publication year： 2008
E-ISBN: 9781316978238
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521881296
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780521881296
Subject： D Political and Legal
Keyword： 政治、法律
Language： ENG
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Description
Analyzes how protest became a key part of organizational maintenance and how organizations use protest as a political tool.
Why do social organizations decide to protest instead of working through institutional channels? This book analyzes why organizations decide to protest. It also outlines the process by which protest became a key part of organizational maintenance, producing constant incentives to protest that do not reflect changing external conditions.
Why do social organizations decide to protest instead of working through institutional channels? This book analyzes why organizations decide to protest. It also outlines the process by which protest became a key part of organizational maintenance, producing constant incentives to protest that do not reflect changing external conditions.
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/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.
1. Riding the tiger: urban protest and political parties; 2. Setting the stage: research design, case selection, and methods; 3. The limits of loyalty; 4. A union born out of struggles: the union of municipal public servants of Sao Paulo (SINDSEP); 5. Partisan loyalty and corporatist control: the unified union of workers of the government of the federal district (SUTGDF); 6. Clients or citizens? Neighborhood associations in Mexico City; 7. Favelas and corticos: neighborhood organizing in Sao Paulo; 8. The dynamics of protest.
“Kathleen Bruhn, whose earlier work on the Mexican left remains the definitive analysis of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, adds to her initial scholarly reputation with a fascinating, detailed, original exploration of protest movements in Mexico City and São Paulo, based on a unique, author-generated, extensive data-base from newspaper archives. Bruhn masterfully combines a rigorous comparative framework and empirical analysis with qualitative insights and assessments drawn from years of field research, noting the importance of such variables as organizational culture, resources, political context, and party alliances in explaining differences in protest behavior. Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil establishes a notable benchmark for understanding the nature and impact of social movements in the region.”
Roderick Camp, Claremont McKenna College
“Kathleen Bruhn is a first rate scholar and the work presented in this volume is excellent and very innovative. There are some fascinating stories to be told about this material, and Bruhn’s exhaustive fieldwork concentr
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