TY - BOOK AU - Moseley,Mason Wallace TI - Protest state: the rise of everyday contention in Latin America SN - 9780190694036 (ebook) : AV - HN110.5.A8 M633 2018 U1 - 303.484098 23 PY - 2018/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Protest movements KW - Latin America KW - Social movements KW - Political participation KW - Government accountability KW - Democracy KW - Social aspects KW - Politics and government KW - 21st century N1 - Previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - In the midst of an unprecedented era of democratic governments and economic prosperity, why are a record number of Latin American citizens choosing to participate in protests? This text argues that increasingly engaged citizenries, forged by economic progress and technological advances throughout the region, combined with dysfunctional political institutions have fueled more contentious modes of participation in Latin America, as citizens' demands for government responsiveness have overwhelmed many regimes' institutional capacity to provide it UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190694005.001.0001 ER -