“Popular Protests and Protest Event Analysis in Latin America . . . has the potential to rapidly become a reference point for the discipline. It applies the methodology of protest event analysis to successfully cover a daunting amount of ground. After a technical and theoretical introduction, the book is divided into two macro-sections, where the first focuses on longitudinally tracing the national evolution of protests for a series of countries and the second casts a narrower gaze at the process of specific protest cycles. Wonderfully cohesive for an edited volume, it gathers evidence from a multitude of sources and analyzes it under a unitary methodological umbrella.”

– Latin American Politics and Society

“A must-read for scholars of Latin America, social movements, and protest and for anyone interested in understanding how democracy and globalization have affected popular movements in Latin America.”

– Carew Boulding, author of NGOs, Political Protest, and Civil Society

"This illuminating compilation of case studies examines protest movements in ten Latin American countries over the last half century. The surprising findings run counter to the pessimistic notion that the region is characterized purely by rising authoritarianism and democratic backsliding."

– Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs