Papers of a conference sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and held at the University's Lutcher Conference Center, Nov. 12-13, 1976. Bibliography: p. 219-244. Includes index.
Contents:
[3. The political participation of workers and the urban poor] -- The urban poor in Guayaquil, Ecuador : modes, correlates, and context of political participation / Richard J. Moore. The structure of participation : a commentary / Richard Newbold Adams -- Let Jorge do it : a rational choice model of political participation / Wilber A. Chaffee, Jr. -- [2. The political participation of peasants] -- The significance of participation : peasants in the politics of Brazil / Shepard Forman -- Political participation in a Peruvian highland district / John T. Fishel -- Structure and levels of political participation in Costa Rica : comparing peasants with city dwellers / Mitchell A. Seligson and John A. Booth -- Political and economic activism: peasant participation in the Ejidos of the Comarca Lagunera of Mexico / Henry A. Landsberger and Bobby M. Gierisch -- Comparing political violence in Colombia and Guatemala / John A. Booth -- Female participation, perception, and power : an examination of two Andean communities / Susan C. Bourque and Kay B. Warren -- Unconventional political participation : cynicism, powerlessness, and the Latin American peasant / Mitchell A. Seligson -- The limits of Latin American political participation : a critique of the revisionist literature / Roberto Varela -- [3. The political participation of workers and the urban poor] -- Unionization, ideology, and political participation within the Mexican working class / Howard Handelman -- An anatomy of dependency : a Bolivian tin miner's strike / Thomas C. Greaves and Javier Albo -- Political participation and rural labor in Chile / Brian Lovenman -- The urban poor in Guayaquil, Ecuador : modes, correlates, and context of political participation / Richard J. Moore.
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