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The resurgence of the Latin American left / edited by Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011.Description: xiii, 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781421401096 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1421401096 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781421401102 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 142140110X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.53098
LOC classification:
  • JL 969 R436 2011
Contents:
Evidence From Public Opinion / Jason Ross Arnold, David J. Samuels -- Economic Constraints and Presidential Agency / Marfa Victoria Murillo, Virginia Oliveros, Milan Vaishnav -- The Left : Destroyer or Savior of the Market Model? / Kurt Weyland -- The Political Left, the Export Boom, and the Populist Temptation / Robert R. Kaufman -- Social Policy and Redistribution : Chile and Uruguay / Jennifer Pribble, Evelyne Huber -- The Diversity of Left Party Linkages and Competitive Advantages / Samuel Handlin, Ruth Berins Collier -- The Left and Participatory Democracy: Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela / Benjamin Goldfrank -- The Left and Citizenship Rights / Debiorah J. Yashar -- Venezuela: Hugo Chavez and the Populist Left / Margarita Loapez Maya -- Bolivia : Origins and Policies of the Movimiento al Socialismo / Raual Madrid -- Ecuador : Rafael Correa and the Citizens' Revolution / Catherine M. Conaghan -- Argentina : Left Populism in Comparative Perspective, 2003--2009 / Sebastian Etchemendy, Candelaria Garay -- Brazil : The PT in Power / Wendy Hunter -- Chile : The Left after Neoliberalism / Kenneth M. Roberts -- Uruguay : A Social Democratic Government in Latin America / Jorge Lanzaro -- Peru : The Left Turn That Wasn't / Maxwell A. Cameron -- Conclusion : Democracy, Development, and the Left / Steven Levitsky, Kenneth M. Roberts.
Summary: Latin America experienced an unprecedented wave of left-leaning governments between 1998 and 2010. This volume examines the causes of this leftward turn and the consequences it carries for the region in the twenty-first century. The book looks at several major themes on public opinion, political victories, affected market economies, social welfare, popular participation in politics, and citizenship rights. In addition, it examines social and economic policy and regime trajectories in eight cases: those of leftist governments in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela, as well as that of a historically populist party that governed on the right in Peru
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-459) and index.

Evidence From Public Opinion / Jason Ross Arnold, David J. Samuels -- Economic Constraints and Presidential Agency / Marfa Victoria Murillo, Virginia Oliveros, Milan Vaishnav -- The Left : Destroyer or Savior of the Market Model? / Kurt Weyland -- The Political Left, the Export Boom, and the Populist Temptation / Robert R. Kaufman -- Social Policy and Redistribution : Chile and Uruguay / Jennifer Pribble, Evelyne Huber -- The Diversity of Left Party Linkages and Competitive Advantages / Samuel Handlin, Ruth Berins Collier -- The Left and Participatory Democracy: Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela / Benjamin Goldfrank -- The Left and Citizenship Rights / Debiorah J. Yashar -- Venezuela: Hugo Chavez and the Populist Left / Margarita Loapez Maya -- Bolivia : Origins and Policies of the Movimiento al Socialismo / Raual Madrid -- Ecuador : Rafael Correa and the Citizens' Revolution / Catherine M. Conaghan -- Argentina : Left Populism in Comparative Perspective, 2003--2009 / Sebastian Etchemendy, Candelaria Garay -- Brazil : The PT in Power / Wendy Hunter -- Chile : The Left after Neoliberalism / Kenneth M. Roberts -- Uruguay : A Social Democratic Government in Latin America / Jorge Lanzaro -- Peru : The Left Turn That Wasn't / Maxwell A. Cameron -- Conclusion : Democracy, Development, and the Left / Steven Levitsky, Kenneth M. Roberts.

Latin America experienced an unprecedented wave of left-leaning governments between 1998 and 2010. This volume examines the causes of this leftward turn and the consequences it carries for the region in the twenty-first century. The book looks at several major themes on public opinion, political victories, affected market economies, social welfare, popular participation in politics, and citizenship rights. In addition, it examines social and economic policy and regime trajectories in eight cases: those of leftist governments in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela, as well as that of a historically populist party that governed on the right in Peru

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