Resource Mobilization, Social Capital, Religion, and Protest across Latin America

We know non-state social institutions such as religious congregations, professional associations, community groups, and NGOs provide resources that help mobilize social ations engenders the trust, reciprocity, and civic skills that overcome local collective While more recent work has helpfully elaborated pathways explaining variation in the engagement, there is still work to be done in elaborating how they develop capacities to do so. The issue is significant for our scholarly understanding of collective action because the literature currently provides contradictory evidence on whether activity in deficiency of theorizing that disentangles the impacts of social institutions on activism. While this study is interested in collective action generally, it is particularly preventional forms of political participation may be one of the only tools the masses can