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  • 2 - General Patterns

  • from Part I - The Past: Crises of Democracy
  • Adam Przeworski, New York University
  • Book:
    Crises of Democracy
    Published online:
    25 September 2019
    Print publication:
    26 September 2019, pp 29-38

  • Summary

    Economic, political, and institutional features of democracies that survived until 2008 and of those that collapsed are compared. The vulnerability of democracies to different types of crises is examined.

  • (De-)Mobilising the Marginalised: A Comparison of the Argentine Piqueteros and Ecuador's Indigenous Movement

  • JONAS WOLFF
  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 39 / Issue 1 / February 2007
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 February 2007, pp. 1-29
    Print publication:
    February 2007

  • In recent years, socio-political crises have challenged democracy across South America. Social movements that succeeded in mobilising marginalised sectors are at the forefront of this turbulence, Ecuador's indigenous movement and the organisations of unemployed workers in Argentina being paradigmatic cases. Recent developments point to an intrinsic weakness of both indigenous and unemployed movements, in that democratic regimes have proved highly successful at ‘taming’ them. By comparing the two movements, in terms of their internal dynamics and interactions with the political system, this article argues that common characteristics that were crucial for successful mobilisation in the first place, at the same time, help explain their vulnerability to division and clientelist integration.