How is a local level democratic organization cultivated so that
members, who were previously disenfranchised, are empowered to
oppose an oppressive central authority and participate in a
revolutionary reconstruction of society? Having spent many years
researching this question, Johannes P. Van Vugt applies a model of
democratic organization for social change to his findings regarding
the way literacy campaigns and Christian Base communities were
organized in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Brazil. His
study is valuable as an example of a scientific methodology for
studying and cultivating democratic organization for social change,
and as a clarification of the controversy over the role of specific
campaigns and organizations.
Van Vugt approaches his study from an interdisciplinary
perspective using a methodology that is qualitative, historical,
and comparative. He blends the cultural insights of ethnography
with the structural understanding of how ideologies and
organizations motivate and mobilize people. His research is based
on field studies in Nicaragua; other studies of El Salvador,
Guatemala, and Brazil; and theories of democratic organization and
social change.
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