Social Movements and Party Politics: Popular Mobilization and the Reciprocal Structuring of Political Representation in Latin America

• Autores: Kenneth Roberts
• Localización: The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements / coord. por Federico M. Rossi, 2023, ISBN 9780190870362, págs. 715-730
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Social movements and political parties are often studied in isolation from each other in separate branches of the social sciences, but this divide is artificial and counterproductive. Movements and parties are both collective actors that offer citizens "voice" in the public shpere, and there are numerous points of intersection between them. Indeed, movements and parties can be mutually constitutive, and they reciprocally structure, and sometimes de-structure, mass political representation. The Latin American experience provides numerous examples of this reciprocal structuring, both historically and in the contemporary period. Party systems have often shaped the political opportunity structure for social movements, while mass protest has played a major role in configuring, realigning, and sometimes breaking down party systems. Understanding political representation in the region requires close attention to the interaction between parties and movements and their reciprocal structuring of popular collective subjects.