Resumen

TILLY, Charles. La democratización mediante la lucha. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2005, vol.20, n.57, pp.35-59. ISSN 2007-8358.

This article attempts to interpret the changes in containment and democratization in Europe since 1650. It investigates the different trajectories of contentious policy, recognizing that by looking into this process, it is explaining a strange, contingent result: democracy.

Palabras llave : Collective action; democratization; containment policy; protected consultations.