Drawing on debates on deliberative and participatory democracy, I argue that social movements can be considered to be promoting democratization when they are able to compel governments to increase effective participation ...

This paper presents some reflections arising from a research about the political surveillance held against the student movements in Parana State, during the pre and post civil-military coup of 1964 in Brazil. Based on the ...

This study examines the university student movement of the 1970s and the Public Act at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) in 1977, culminating in an episode of police violence against the students. ...

Considering the relationship between new social media and youth political actions, the purpose of this article is to describe the use of Facebook during the 2011 Chilean student movement, through a content and textual ...

The year 2008 was full of "celebration" about the mythical 1968. Universities, newspapers and television networks devoted their attention to the forty-year cycle of major political demonstrations student of brazilian ...

This chapter analyzes the interaction between social movements and political actors in a democratic context, with an emphasis on the relationship with political parties. Based on the case study of the Chilean student ...

This book presents rich empirical analyses of the most important movements in Chile’s post-transition era: the Student Movement, the Mapuche Movement, the Labor Movement, the Feminist Movement, and the Environmental Movement. ...