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Paths toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and Latin America. By Ruth Berins Collier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 230p. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2005

Robert M. Fishman
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame,,

Abstract

Ruth Collier has written an important contribution to the literatures on democracy and on labor, one that should reorient much discussion and work on democratization. Collier makes a powerful case that labor has been a far more important and decisive actor in redemocratization than con- ventionally thought, and her reconceptualization of the cases on this basis yields an important new typology of regime transitions. The book casts a wide empirical net, examining the contribution of labor to the emergence of democracy in numerous countries in both the Americas and Europe.

Type
Book Review
Copyright
2001 by the American Political Science Association

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