Skip to content

Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest

Date of Publication: 
2014

About the Book:

Paul Almeida’s comparative study of the largest social movement campaigns that existed between 1980 and 2013 in every Central American country (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) provides a granular examination of the forces that spark mass mobilizations against state economic policy, whether those factors are electricity rate hikes or water and health care privatization.

 

About the Author:

Paul Almeida is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. His research centers on political sociology, historical comparative, globalization, and social movements.

 

Link to buy the book: https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/mobilizing-democracy
 

Author: 
Paul Almeida
Discipline: