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Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador
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Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador
Current price: $72.00
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Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador
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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 mobilizationin El Salvador an effective guerilla army supported by peasant collaboration and in South Africa a powerful alliance of labor unions and poor urban dwellersforced the elite to the bargaining table, and why a durable settlement and democratic government were the result.