El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar el rol del movimiento sindical, de los pobladores y de los empresarios en el proceso de pretransicion a la democracia en Chile, asi como sugerir algunas hipotesis sobre su posible comportamiento cuando dicha transicion tenga lugar

Independently of the fact that the replacement of overtly authoritarian regimes in many African countries appeared to presage fundamental political change, a closer examination of democratic trends since the establishment of the African Union (AU) paints a less promising picture. In this paper,...

Labor unions in pre-democratized Korea and Taiwan were directly organized and financially sponsored by authoritarian regimes. South Korea's Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU) and Taiwan's Chinese Federation of Labor (CFL) enjoyed a privileged status until the late 1980s when their monopoly...

The survival and regeneration of the Croatian Democratic Union in the aftermath of the death of the party's authoritarian leader, Croatian president Franjo Tudjman, demonstrates the crucial role of elites and party organization in determining the trajectory of post-communist party system...