The Decline of Latin American Student Activism.

摘要: If Latin America once represented a worldwide reference point for potent student activism, the region now stands out decline of activism. While other regions experience new forms and impacts America's should be understood within two broad contexts: macropolitical higher educational. The context subsumes at least three major causal factors. One is role authoritarian rule, especially powerful in 1970s but leaving legacy that itself works against Second, we must consider more complex mixed redemocratization has swept region. third factor general left both domestically internationally. On education side, decades unprecedented growth numbers have fragmented body, as accompanied by extraordinary institutional proliferation. Many newer institutions are inhospitable Privatization had an strong demobilizing effect. changes changing profile fields study, away from some most associated with politics. Finally, concentration top social scientists research centers apart universities - students also crucial.