Explores the value of an organization-centered approach to understanding parties and their role in democratic representation.

Provides a new way of thinking about parties formed by social movements, and their evolution over time.

"Reconstructs the experience of participatory urban governance in three impoverished communities in Montevideo, Uruguay. Offers an account of various experience

"Never Silent is a gorgeous book . . . Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone who's thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the

This book presents a new and conflict-centered theory of successful party-building, drawing on diverse cases from across Latin America.