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Protest Waves in El Salvador

by Kate Calle on November 28, 2009

in Papers

In Opportunity Organizations and Threat-Induced Contention: Protest Waves in Authoritarian Settings, Paul Almeida explains the cycles of protest in El Salvador by using political process theory’s opportunity and threat models.  The first wave of protest, from 1960 to 1972,  had increased institutional access through increased institutional access (357).  This lead to a non-violent protest wave [...]