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Louisiana State University

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China’S Involvement In Latin America And Possible Ramifications For The United States, Tatiana Gozalez-Quiroga Apr 2018

China’S Involvement In Latin America And Possible Ramifications For The United States, Tatiana Gozalez-Quiroga

Honors Theses

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Unlikely Allies: A Case Study On Cross Class Protest In Guatemala, Daniel B. Bollich Jan 2017

Unlikely Allies: A Case Study On Cross Class Protest In Guatemala, Daniel B. Bollich

LSU Master's Theses

Cross-class mobilization in developing countries can be a powerful force for precipitating political change, but the literature on cross-class protest movements in developing countries has focused almost exclusively on democratization movements and has not dealt adequately with cross-class protest in other contexts. Additionally, the literature on protest movements typically focuses on the lower classes, while the upper classes are either ignored or assumed to be one-dimensional, uniform, self-interested actors who only protest when it is in their own best economic and political interest. These deficiencies in the literature have been illuminated by the massive protests that occurred in Guatemala in …