01745pab a2200181 454500008004000000100002500040245013100065260000900196300001300205362000800218520110100226650004301327650002801370773003401398909001001432999001701442952010401459180718b2001   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aWood, Elisabeth Yean  aAn insurgent path to democracy: popular mobilization, economic interests and regime transition in South Africa and El Salvador  c2001  ap.862-88  aOct  aIn El Salvador and South Africa, mobilizatin by the economically and socially marginalized impelled the transition to democracy, forcing the initial liberalization of the regime and eventulally laying  the political and economic foundations for democratizing compromise. These cases thus provide an opportunity to analyze one mechanism by which mobilization "from below" impels some regime transitions.  In this insurgent path to democracy, sustained mobilization by poor and working class people transformed key interests of economic elities, leading to pressure on the state to compromise with the insurgents, thereby strengthening regime moderates over hard-liners with the result that negotiated transitions to democracy followed.  The dramatis personae of these transitions were not contending elite factions, as in the most Latin American and southern European transitions, but representatives of distinct classes whose conflict of economic interest propelled the conflict and whose economic interdependence contributed to the structural basis of its democratizing resolution. - Reproduced.  aPolitics and government - South Africa  aPolitics and government  aComparative Political Studies  a51294  c51294d51294  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 34, Issue no: 8pAR51722r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR