Celebrating the Demise of Somocismo Fifty Recent Spanish Sources on the Nicaraguan Revolution
In: Latin American research review, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 173-189
ISSN: 1542-4278
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In: Latin American research review, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 173-189
ISSN: 1542-4278
In: Journal of Interamerican studies and world affairs, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 195-225
ISSN: 2162-2736
Since the late sixties, Guatemalans have murdered each other at an astonishing rate. This wave of politically related terrorism and assassinations began to grow rapidly in 1966 and has continued, fluctuating in intensity, to the present. In 1967, for instance, incidents of violence averaged 70 per month, causing some 30 monthly deaths; in 1971 the figures had risen 60%. This article describes the historical antecedents of this conflict, its development as right-wing terrorists sought to counterbalance leftist guerrilla insurgency and the subsequent evolution of violence. Seeking an explanation for why violence was greater in some areas than in others, the essay examines two structural theories which suggest that conflict may be most intense where the strength of contending political parties is most nearly equal and where socioeconomic change is greatest.
In: American political science review, Band 73, Heft 1, S. 275-277
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: Latin American research review: LARR ; the journal of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Band 14, Heft 3, S. 29-60
ISSN: 0023-8791
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In: Latin American research review: LARR, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 29-60
ISSN: 1542-4278
Despite calls to improve and systematize research on political participation in Latin America more than a decade ago (Kling 1964, Flores Olea 1967), the burgeoning literature on the subject has yet to achieve full recognition. Thus certain contradictory and incomplete traditional images still linger in the scholarly literature (Booth and Seligson 1978a). These treatments vary dramatically and almost bewilderingly: while one suggests that Latin Americans are becoming increasingly politically mobilized, two others hold that mass participation is very low and that most political activity is restricted to socioeconomic elites. Other images portray mass political participation as irrational and dwell upon political violence. Such familiar notions have often intertwined. For example, a common picture depicts most Latin Americans, and especially peasants, as politically passive and quiescent until provoked, when they may burst violently into the political arena (for example, see Forman 1971, Singelmann 1975, Handelman 1975b, Moreno 1970). Similarly Wiarda (1974, pp. 4–5) discusses how the image of mobilization often combines with that of violence, producing the notion that the rising political awareness and participation of Latin Americans leads inexorably to ever greater levels of conflict (e.g., Schmitt and Burks 1963, Hadley 1958, Petras and Zeitlin 1968, Petras 1968).
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 627-633
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 627-633
ISSN: 0043-4078
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In: The Western political quarterly, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 657-679
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 657
ISSN: 0043-4078
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 27, S. 657-679
ISSN: 0043-4078
Analysing data on eighteen countries, this book systematically and comparatively evaluates norms, attitudes, and opinions concerning democracy and its consolidation and presents readers with a pan-Latin American examination of the region's contemporary political culture.
In: Rostocker Schriften zum Seerecht und Umweltrecht 6
In: Political participation in Latin America 2