The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement and their waning influence on Brazil’s Workers’ Party government

Social movements and leftist governments in Latin America: Confrontation or co-optation?

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 34-48

  Vanden, Hary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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