Packet 3: Tossup 8

A political scientist who studied this trans-national region coined the terms “horizontal accountability” and “bureaucratic (-5[1])authoritarianism.” (-5[1])Ruth Berins and David Collier applied critical juncture theory to labor movements in this region in Shaping the Political Arena. Like a British counterpart, a thinker from this region argued that primary product economies decline in their terms of trade; that (-5[1])(*) Prebisch-Singer (10[1]-5[1])Thesis underpinned (10[3])the import substitution industrialization (-5[1])pursued by most countries (10[2]-5[1])in this region (10[2])in the (-5[1])20th (-5[1])century. (10[1])Labor activism in this (10[1])region has spread a theory literally translated as “to live well.” A set (10[1])of populist successes in this region is called (10[1]-5[1])“the pink tide.” (10[17])For 10 points, (10[5])Eduardo Galeano wrote of the “open veins” (10[1])of what (10[1])cultural region that originated (10[1])the term caudillo (10[2])■END■ (10[4])

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