Round 3: Tossup 8

A political scientist who studied this trans-national region coined the terms “horizontal accountability” and “bureaucratic 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 Thesis underpinned the import substitution industrialization pursued by most countries in this region (10[1])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.” For 10 points, (10[1])Eduardo Galeano wrote of the “open veins” of what cultural region that originated the term caudillo ■END■

Back to tossups

Buzzes

Summary