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Velasco, Marcela.

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Manifesting the people's will: Institutional change and protests in Colombia, 1958--2002.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Manifesting the people's will: Institutional change and protests in Colombia, 1958--2002./
Author:	Velasco, Marcela.
Description:	192 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3574.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	History, Latin American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3232927
ISBN:	9780542869433

Manifesting the people's will: Institutional change and protests in Colombia, 1958--2002.
Velasco, Marcela.

Manifesting the people's will: Institutional change and protests in Colombia, 1958--2002. - 192 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3574.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2007.

The study of contentious politics is an emerging area of research in political science that explores informal politics (i.e. strikes and protests) as opposed to formal politics (i.e. voting or lobbying) in order to understand the complex relationships between states and societies. This dissertation examines why social contention (work stoppages, protests and takeovers led by workers, urban residents, peasants and students) continued unabated after the 1991 constitutional reform aimed at liberalizing politics in Colombia. I use qualitative and quantitative methods to test the following four hypotheses over the time period from 1964 to 2000: (1) as citizen and state capacities decline over time, social contention increases; (2) as time passes, social contention increases; (3) the 1991 Constitution had no effect on contentious politics; and (4) regimes that increase political participation will decrease contention.

ISBN: 9780542869433Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017580
History, Latin American.

Manifesting the people's will: Institutional change and protests in Colombia, 1958--2002.
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520 $a The study of contentious politics is an emerging area of research in political science that explores informal politics (i.e. strikes and protests) as opposed to formal politics (i.e. voting or lobbying) in order to understand the complex relationships between states and societies. This dissertation examines why social contention (work stoppages, protests and takeovers led by workers, urban residents, peasants and students) continued unabated after the 1991 constitutional reform aimed at liberalizing politics in Colombia. I use qualitative and quantitative methods to test the following four hypotheses over the time period from 1964 to 2000: (1) as citizen and state capacities decline over time, social contention increases; (2) as time passes, social contention increases; (3) the 1991 Constitution had no effect on contentious politics; and (4) regimes that increase political participation will decrease contention.
520 $a State capacity is the level of control exercised by state agents over people, activities, and resources within the government's territorial jurisdiction, and in the international arena. Citizen capacity is defined as the polity members' capacity to access economic and political resources and shape public policy. Factor analysis was used to create indices of state capacity and citizen capacity. The dissertation uses multivariate time series regression analysis to test the hypotheses by analyzing the relationship from 1964 to 2000 between social contention and trends in citizen and state capacity, the 1991 Constitution, and the influence of different political regimes. The dissertation also uses historical data to discuss the relationship between state and citizen capacities from 1958 to 2000.
520 $a Hypothesis 1 is validated, although the state capacity variables have a stronger relationship with social contention than does citizen capacity. Hypothesis 2 is not validated---there is no significant relationship between the passage of time and social contention, but including time in the equation reveals the strength of the citizen capacity variable in one equation. Hypothesis 3---that there is no relationship between the 1991 Constitution and social contention---invalidated by this research. Finally, hypothesis 4 is not validated at all---in fact regimes that increase political participation also increase social contention.
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