Round 3: Tossup 8

A political scientist who studied this trans-national region coined the terms “horizontal accountability” and “bureaucratic (-5[1])authoritarianism.” 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 (*) Prebisch-Singer (10[1])Thesis underpinned (10[1])the import substitution industrialization pursued by most countries in this region in the 20th century. Labor activism in this region has spread a theory literally translated as “to live well.” A set of populist successes in this region is called “the pink tide.” (10[3])For 10 points, Eduardo Galeano wrote of the “open veins” (10[1])of what cultural region that originated the term caudillo ■END■

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