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The Economic Development-Democratization Relationship: Does the Outside World Matter?

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The Economic Development-Democratization Relationship: Does the Outside World Matter?
Author(s)Colaresi, M.; Thompson, William R.
AbstractThe relationship between class and race in the favelas and ghettos of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and New York City, NY, respectively, have significant impacts on processes of political empowerment among those living there. While social class is more diversely distributed in the ghetto, favelas are heterogeneous classwise with little variation. In the ghettos, social movements are race-based and come out in a depoliticized form. In favelas, social movements are based on class identity that enabled development of a political agenda to wrest policy concessions. Demographic features of poor urban blacks are discussed.
IssueNo4
Pages381-403
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceComparative Political Studies
VolumeNo36
PubDate 2004
ISBN_ISSN0010-4140


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