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Despite significant improvements in living standards and the presence of routinized elections, protests remain a way of life in many Latin American countries. Protest State is a first-rate book that bridges two large literatures-political institutions and behavior-to explain the wide variation in protest activity cross nationally and sub nationally in Latin America. Moseley aptly shows that protest states emerge in countries characterized by low quality institutions and high levels of citizen engagement in politics. This is a must-read book for students interested in contentious politics in Latin America and beyond. -Moises Arce, University of Missouri Engaged citizens in weak states fuel the fire of Moseley's Protest State. Citizens confronted with inattentive and ineffectual institutions, who demand policies and air grievances that go unnoticed. Eventually, citizens learn to shout their demands and the State learns to listen only to those who are the loudest. Moseley's book wonderfully shows that protests in Latin America can become a daily strategy to communicate demands rather than episodic flairs of grievances. Driven by engaged and educated citizens, politically active and embedded in local community organizations, Moseley's book explains why voters in Latin America are more likely to walk the streets than to write to their representatives. -Ernesto F. Calvo, University of Maryland-College Park In this truly insightful book, Moseley takes on explaining why citizens rely on protests as a form of political participation. He combines a Huntingtonian tradition, by focusing on the impact of institutions that fail to channel political demands, along with the effect of frameworks on collective action derived from the contentious politics literature while adding the subnational dynamics that can explain how democratic quality can vary not across but also within countries. The result of this complex theoretical framework is genuinely rich in its explanatory capacity while nuanced enough to provide a comprehensive understanding of regional patterns. This book is an outstanding contribution to both the scholarship on contentious politics and the politics of Latin America. -Maria Victoria Murillo, Columbia University

""Protest State is an important book. It provides rich empirical data to support a creative theory about a regime where protest becomes so quotidian as to become part of everyday political life. ...The book is a must-read for scholars interested in the region, social movements, and contentious politics in the Global South."" -- Mariela Daby, Perspectives in Politics ""Despite significant improvements in living standards and the presence of routinized elections, protests remain a way of life in many Latin American countries. Protest State is a first-rate book that bridges two large literatures-political institutions and behavior-to explain the wide variation in protest activity cross nationally and sub nationally in Latin America. Moseley aptly shows that protest states emerge in countries characterized by low quality institutions and high levels of citizen engagement in politics. This is a must-read book for students interested in contentious politics in Latin America and beyond.""-Moises Arce, University of Missouri ""Engaged citizens in weak states fuel the fire of Moseley's Protest State. Citizens confronted with inattentive and ineffectual institutions, who demand policies and air grievances that go unnoticed. Eventually, citizens learn to shout their demands and the State learns to listen only to those who are the loudest. Moseley's book wonderfully shows that protests in Latin America can become a daily strategy to communicate demands rather than episodic flairs of grievances. Driven by engaged and educated citizens, politically active and embedded in local community organizations, Moseley's book explains why voters in Latin America are more likely to walk the streets than to write to their representatives.""-Ernesto F. Calvo, University of Maryland-College Park ""In this truly insightful book, Moseley takes on explaining why citizens rely on protests as a form of political participation. He combines a Huntingtonian tradition, by focusing on the impact of institutions that fail to channel political demands, along with the effect of frameworks on collective action derived from the contentious politics literature while adding the subnational dynamics that can explain how democratic quality can vary not across but also within countries. The result of this complex theoretical framework is genuinely rich in its explanatory capacity while nuanced enough to provide a comprehensive understanding of regional patterns. This book is an outstanding contribution to both the scholarship on contentious politics and the politics of Latin America.""-Maria Victoria Murillo, Columbia University

Protest State is an important book. It provides rich empirical data to support a creative theory about a regime where protest becomes so quotidian as to become part of everyday political life. ...The book is a must-read for scholars interested in the region, social movements, and contentious politics in the Global South. -- Mariela Daby, Perspectives in Politics Despite significant improvements in living standards and the presence of routinized elections, protests remain a way of life in many Latin American countries. Protest State is a first-rate book that bridges two large literatures-political institutions and behavior-to explain the wide variation in protest activity cross nationally and sub nationally in Latin America. Moseley aptly shows that protest states emerge in countries characterized by low quality institutions and high levels of citizen engagement in politics. This is a must-read book for students interested in contentious politics in Latin America and beyond. -Moises Arce, University of Missouri Engaged citizens in weak states fuel the fire of Moseley's Protest State. Citizens confronted with inattentive and ineffectual institutions, who demand policies and air grievances that go unnoticed. Eventually, citizens learn to shout their demands and the State learns to listen only to those who are the loudest. Moseley's book wonderfully shows that protests in Latin America can become a daily strategy to communicate demands rather than episodic flairs of grievances. Driven by engaged and educated citizens, politically active and embedded in local community organizations, Moseley's book explains why voters in Latin America are more likely to walk the streets than to write to their representatives. -Ernesto F. Calvo, University of Maryland-College Park In this truly insightful book, Moseley takes on explaining why citizens rely on protests as a form of political participation. He combines a Huntingtonian tradition, by focusing on the impact of institutions that fail to channel political demands, along with the effect of frameworks on collective action derived from the contentious politics literature while adding the subnational dynamics that can explain how democratic quality can vary not across but also within countries. The result of this complex theoretical framework is genuinely rich in its explanatory capacity while nuanced enough to provide a comprehensive understanding of regional patterns. This book is an outstanding contribution to both the scholarship on contentious politics and the politics of Latin America. -Maria Victoria Murillo, Columbia University

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Mason W. Moseley is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics at West Virginia University. His research interests lie in comparative political behavior and public opinion, and he has published on topics like protest, clientelism, and civic engagement, particularly in Latin America.

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