Solt, FrederickKim, DongkyuLee, Kyu YoungWillardson, Spencer LKim, Seokdong2016-05-192016-05-192014Frederick Solt, Dongkyu Kim, Kyu Young Lee, Spencer Willardson, Seokdong Kim; 2014; Neoliberal reform and protest in Latin American democracies: A replication and correction; Research and Politicshttp://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1477Do neoliberal economic reforms in Latin American democracies mobilize citizens to overcome their collective action problems and protest? A recent addition to the scholarship on this crucial question of the relationship of markets and politics, Bellinger and Arce (2011), concludes that economic liberalization does have this effect, working to repoliticize collective actors and reinvigorate democracy. We reexamine the article’s analyses and demonstrate that they misinterpret the marginal effect of the variables of theoretical interest. Thus, the article’s optimistic claims about the consequences for democracy of economic liberalization in the region are not supported by its own empirical results. It is argued here that its results suggest instead that protests became more common in autocracies when they moved away from markets. Rather than speaking to how people have mobilized to protest against liberal reforms in Latin America’s democracies, the work’s analyses illuminate only when people protested against the region’s dictatorshipsenAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United StatesNeoliberal reformpolitical protestLatin AmericaArticle