Structure for Opportunities for the Guerrilla (in Spanish)
Revista Andina de Estudios Políticos, Vol. 1, No. 9, 2011
11 Pages Posted: 18 Oct 2011 Last revised: 21 Oct 2011
Date Written: October 1, 2011
Abstract
This article is an analysis of the FARC around the theory of political opportunity structures. It begins by addressing the basic definitions and then get to see two of the dimensions that we believe affect (or did not affect) to the FARC: the opening of the polity and the change in political alignments. Is postulated the unequal political opportunities based on the following question: at what point of the transgressive development – or the "political evolution" of the challengers actors at the government – appears the political opportunity structures?
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Keywords: FARC, Colombian Guerrilla, Political Opportunities, Domestic Conflict
JEL Classification: N46
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