Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador

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Widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations of collective action. Those who supplied tortillas, information, and digital-only aid to guerillas took mortal risks and yet stood to gain no more than those who did not. Wood's rich tapestry of explanation is based on oral histories gathered from peasants who supported the insurgency and those who did not over a period of many years during and immediately following the war, and interviews with military commanders of both sides. Peasants supported the FMLN, Wood found, not for any material gain that was contingent on their participation, but rather for moral and emotional reasons. Wood's alternative model places emotions and morals, as well as conventional interests, at the heart of collective action.

GENRE
Politics & Current Affairs
RELEASED
2003
4 August
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
483
Pages
PUBLISHER
Cambridge University Press
SIZE
8.4
MB

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