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Popular Movements in Autocracies - Religion, Repression, and Indigenous Collective Action in Mexico (Paperback)
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Popular Movements in Autocracies - Religion, Repression, and Indigenous Collective Action in Mexico (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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This book presents a new explanation of the rise, development, and
demise of social movements and cycles of protest in autocracies;
the conditions under which protest becomes rebellion; and the
impact of protest and rebellion on democratization. Focusing on
poor indigenous villages in Mexico's authoritarian regime, the book
shows that the spread of U.S. Protestant missionaries and the
competition for indigenous souls motivated the Catholic Church to
become a major promoter of indigenous movements for land
redistribution and indigenous rights. It also shows that the
introduction of government-controlled multiparty elections and the
spread of competition for indigenous votes led Leftist opposition
parties to become major sponsors of indigenous protest and
identities. The expansion of electoral competition in some regions
eventually led opposition parties to institutionalize protest, but
the withdrawal of civil rights and political liberties and the
threat of regime reversion in others gave rise to radicalization.
The book explains why the outbreak of local rebellions, the
transformation of indigenous claims for land into demands for
ethnic autonomy and self-determination, and the threat of a
generalized social uprising motivated national elites to
democratize. Drawing on an original dataset of indigenous
collective action and on extensive fieldwork, the empirical
analysis of the book combines quantitative evidence with case
studies and life histories.
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