Philip / Panizza The Triumph of Politics

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-7391-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

The Triumph of Politics offers a comparative and historicalinterpretation of Venezuela's Chavez, Bolivia's Morales andEcuador's Correa - South America's most prominent '21stcentury socialists'. It argues that the claims of these 21stcentury socialists should be taken seriously even though notnecessarily at face value.

The authors show how the consensual market oriented policymakingthat characterized almost all of South America in the 1990s has nowgiven way to something quite different. Polarization and intensepolitical conflict have returned to much of the region. Althoughthe Left has not always been the beneficiary of this changedpattern, the '21st century' governments of Chavez, Moralesand Correa have been agenda setters. The questions raised by theiremergence, style of governance and policy orientations resonateacross Latin America and beyond. It is likely that the kind ofpolitics with which they have been associated will be influentialin the region for quite some time to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Philip, George

Panizza, Francisco

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vi
List of Abbreviations vii
Introduction: The Triumph of Politics in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador 1
1 The Military and the Rise of the Left 13
2 The Politics of Mass Protests 41
3 Populism and the Return of the Political 68
4 Personalism, Plebiscites and Institutions 102
5 The Politics of Oil and Gas: Twenty-First Century
Socialism in Practice 123
6 The Fault Lines of Latin American Integration 149
Conclusion 174
Notes 185
References 194
Index 215

Über Autor(innen)

George Philip is Professor in Latin American Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Francisco Panizza is Reader in Latin American Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.