Kathleen Bruhn is a professor in and the chair of the Department of Political Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil.

• List of Tables and FiguresIntroduction: Protest in the Pink Tide1. Markets and Protest Potential2. The Ties that Bind: Parties, Representation and Protest3. Sticks and Stones: Tactical Choices and the Risks of Repression4. A Crisis of Representation? The Individual Correlates of Protest5. Flashpoints: Managing Major Episodes of Protest6. An Interactive Model of ProtestBibliography

"Politics and the Pink Tide is well thought out, structured, and written."—Margarita López-Maya, author of Democracia para Venezuela"A very important contribution to Latin American studies, to comparative politics, and to social movement theories, both theoretically and empirically. The argument developed throughout the book is particularly relevant to understanding this period of Latin American politics." —Françoise Montambeault, co-editor of Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America

Kathleen Bruhn is a professor in and the chair of the Department of Political Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil.

• List of Tables and FiguresIntroduction: Protest in the Pink Tide1. Markets and Protest Potential2. The Ties that Bind: Parties, Representation and Protest3. Sticks and Stones: Tactical Choices and the Risks of Repression4. A Crisis of Representation? The Individual Correlates of Protest5. Flashpoints: Managing Major Episodes of Protest6. An Interactive Model of ProtestBibliography

"Politics and the Pink Tide is well thought out, structured, and written."—Margarita López-Maya, author of Democracia para Venezuela"A very important contribution to Latin American studies, to comparative politics, and to social movement theories, both theoretically and empirically. The argument developed throughout the book is particularly relevant to understanding this period of Latin American politics." —Françoise Montambeault, co-editor of Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America

Kathleen Bruhn is a professor in and the chair of the Department of Political Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil.

• List of Tables and FiguresIntroduction: Protest in the Pink Tide1. Markets and Protest Potential2. The Ties that Bind: Parties, Representation and Protest3. Sticks and Stones: Tactical Choices and the Risks of Repression4. A Crisis of Representation? The Individual Correlates of Protest5. Flashpoints: Managing Major Episodes of Protest6. An Interactive Model of ProtestBibliography

"Politics and the Pink Tide is well thought out, structured, and written."—Margarita López-Maya, author of Democracia para Venezuela"A very important contribution to Latin American studies, to comparative politics, and to social movement theories, both theoretically and empirically. The argument developed throughout the book is particularly relevant to understanding this period of Latin American politics." —Françoise Montambeault, co-editor of Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America