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Accepted Paper:
Democracy and Protest: the Dynamics of Government Responses to Mass Demonstrations in Argentina and Brazil in 2012-13
Alejandro Peña
(Brunel University)
Tom Davies
(City University London)
Paper short abstract:
This paper examines the mobilisations in Argentina and Brazil in the 2010s, contrasting the responses by the Rousseff and Kirchner governments and different outcomes in terms of the forms of democracy strengthened.
Paper long abstract:
Argentina and Brazil have recently experienced some of the largest anti-government mobilisations since left-of-centre administrations came to power in the region in the early 2000s. This article examines the trajectory of these protests from the perspective of the different responses by the Rousseff and Kirchner administrations.The article contrasts the reactions by two governments and their effect in de-activating or not the source of the mobilisations. Rather than a static approach considering political opportunity structures simply as 'open' or 'closed', this article disaggregates the different ways by which governments shape understandings of protests and the subsequent implications for both governments and their opponents. While it has been common to suggest in general terms that protest and democracy are interrelated, the models put forward in this article provide novel and dynamic means towards understanding this relationship.
Civil society and social movement mobilisation: lessons from Latin America
Session 1