ABSTRACT
The importance female leaders assign to youth participation is at least partially a result of their own distinctive recruitment into indigenous activism. Therefore, they cannot rely on previously established political networks in order to mobilize electoral support. This chapter establishes the initial building blocks of a novel analytical framework that moves beyond existing research on the consequences of social movements. The framework calls attention to a variety of causal processes by which movements might influence developmental outcomes. It also suggests that movements are more likely to affect desired policies, power relations and public discourses if they have the organizational infrastructure to sustain collective action, and they operate in an institutional space free of major veto players. This emerging framework illustrates why Diaguita land struggles in Tucuman had comparatively more impact than Diaguita protests in Salta and Mbya-Guarani mobilization in Misiones.
