The recent attention in the social sciences to social movement organizations as actors in the drama of social change, needs to be modified to make cultures of opposition the more inclusive topic of analysis and theorizing in comparative studies of change in political systems. The paper identifies ten attributes of cultures of opposition (CO) in […]

Además de los ya conocidos y estudiados procesos de reformas en los países de Europa Oriental, reviste gran importancia para Cuba el estudio de las transformaciones que han experimentado las economías de Latinoamérica. En este sentido, creemos que el caso mexicano constituye una experiencia digna de ser considerada. Pretendemos mediante este trabajo analizar brevemente los […]

The peculiar situation of the Cuban economy in the 1990s has brought to central stage the island’s role in world society.1 The severe crisis induced by the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the old Soviet Union left Cuba’s state socialism facing the challenge of reintegration into a largely-capitalist world society. But the […]