Written in clear, accessible prose, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars in the fields of political science, social movements, anthropology, Latin American studies, and labor studies.

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Globalization and Citizen Protest
2. A Theory of Local Opposition to Globalization
3. Costa Rica: The Prototype for Mobilization against Globalization
4. El Salvador: Opposition Party and Protest Campaigns
5. Panama: The Legacy of Military Populism
6. Nicaragua: Third World Revolution Confronts Globalization
7. Guatemala and Honduras: Anti-Neoliberal Resistance
8. Conclusion: State-Led Development Legacies in the Era of Global Capital
Notes
Bibliography
Index

By comparing local-level protests in countries of Central America during the time of neoliberal reforms, Almeida identifies some of the systematic connections between state structure, civil society organization, and patterns of protest. This is an excellent example of the use of comparative analysis to understand global processes.
—Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh

By comparing local-level protests in countries of Central America during the time of neoliberal reforms, Almeida identifies some of the systematic connections between state structure, civil society organization, and patterns of protest. This is an excellent example of the use of comparative analysis to understand global processes. -- Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh The Central American region has long been neglected in studies of economic liberalization and the social and political responses to it. Paul Almeida fills that gap with this empirically-rich comparative analysis of protest campaigns against market-based globalization in the region. He also breaks new ground theoretically by examining the community-based sources of subnational variation in protest dynamics, and by exploring how multisectoral protest coalitions are forged. This is a much-needed addition to the literature on globalization and social protest, and it is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the fault lines in Central America's postrevolutionary political orders. -- Ken Roberts, Cornell University Paul Almeida brilliantly brings Central America into the great debates about antineoliberal protest in Latin America. Even more importantly it makes a tremendous and much needed contribution to our understanding of how local protest scales up to national campaigns. -- Eduardo Silva, Tulane University Paul Almeida's pleasingly written Mobilizing Democracy unpacks the recent largely non-violent popular struggles against a new round of global capitalist integration in six Central American Nations. He accomplishes this by nesting the recent mobilizations into the comparative context of previous protest campaign mobilizations and each nation's evolving and flourishing civil society structures. Studies of protest mobilization don't get any better than this! -- John McCarthy, Penn State University Paul Almeida has done it again. Through a detailed analysis of over 4,000 separate protest events across Central America, Almeida uncovers the path-dependent processes that enable some anti-neoliberalization mobilizations to take off-and achieve important concessions-while other mobilization attempts flounder. By investigating the interaction between global forces and local contexts, Almeida provides a powerful corrective to existing anti-neoliberalization analyses, which focus heavily on the "global." In fact, he argues, local contexts powerfully influence when and how civil society organizations challenge-and sometimes defeat-neoliberal politics. In the process, Almeida also extends existing scholarly understandings of transnational activism, coalition formation, and the Latin American "Left." This stellar book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex relationship between globalization, civil society, development, and democracy. -- Jocelyn Viterna, Harvard University