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Why do some parties formed by social movements develop top-down structures while others stay more open and responsive to their social bases? The first rigorous comparative study of movement-based parties, this book shows not only how movements can form parties but also how movements contribute to parties' internal politics and shape organizational party models over the long term. Although the existing literature argues that movement-based parties will succumb to professionalization and specialization, Anria shows that this is not inevitable or preordained through an in-depth examination of the unusual and counterintuitive development of Bolivia's MAS. Anria then compares the evolution of the MAS with that of other parties formed by social movements, including Brazil's PT and Uruguay's FA. In a region where successful new parties of any type have been rare, these three parties are remarkable for their success. Yet, despite their similar origins, they differ sharply in their organizational models.
Social movements --- Movimientos sociales --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Political aspects --- Aspectos políticos --- Morales Ayma, Evo, --- Morales Ayma, Juan Evo, --- Ayma, Juan Evo Morales, --- Ayma, Evo Morales, --- Morales, Evo, --- Morales Aima, Evo, --- Aima, Evo Morales, --- Movimiento al Socialismo (Bolivia) --- MAS --- Movement Towards Socialism --- MAS-I.P.S.P. --- MAS-IPSP --- Movimiento al Socialismo-Instrumento Político por la Sobernía de los Pueblos --- Bolivia --- Politics and government --- Política gubernamental 1982-2006 --- Política gubernamental
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In Coca Yes, Cocaine No Thomas Grisaffi traces the political ascent and transformation of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) from an agricultural union of coca growers into Bolivia's ruling party. When Evo Morales—leader of the MAS—became Bolivia's president in 2006, coca growers celebrated his election and the possibility of scaling up their form of grassroots democracy to the national level. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork with coca union leaders, peasant farmers, drug traffickers, and politicians, Grisaffi outlines the tension that Morales faced between the realities of international politics and his constituents, who, even if their coca is grown for ritual or medicinal purposes, are implicated in the cocaine trade and criminalized under the U.S.-led drug war. Grisaffi shows how Morales's failure to meet his constituents' demands demonstrates that the full realization of alternative democratic models at the local or national level is constrained or enabled by global political and economic circumstances.
Coca industry --- Cocaine industry --- Agricultural laborers --- Agricultural workers --- Farm labor --- Farm laborers --- Farm workers --- Farmhands --- Farmworkers --- Employees --- Drug traffic --- Coca leaf industry --- Government policy --- Labor unions --- Movimiento al Socialismo (Bolivia) --- MAS --- Movement Towards Socialism --- MAS-I.P.S.P. --- MAS-IPSP --- Movimiento al Socialismo-Instrumento Político por la Sobernía de los Pueblos --- Bolivia --- Politics and government --- Coca industry - Bolivia - Chaparé --- Cocaine industry - Bolivia - Chaparé --- Coca industry - Government policy - Bolivia --- Agricultural laborers - Labor unions - Bolivia - Chaparé --- Bolivia - Politics and government - 2006 --- -Bolivia - Politics and government - 1982-2006
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