Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America

The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-268-10657-7
Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press

Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 829 g

Reihe: Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development

Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship contains original essays by a diverse group of leading and emerging scholars from North America, Europe, and Latin America. The book speaks to wide-ranging debates on democracy, the left, and citizenship in Latin America. What were the effects of a decade and a half of left and center-left governments? The central purpose of this book is to evaluate both the positive and negative effects of the Left turn on state-society relations and inclusion.Promises of social inclusion and the expansion of citizenship rights were paramount to the center-left discourses upon the factions' arrival to power in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This book is a first step in understanding to what extent these initial promises were or were not fulfilled, and why. In analyzing these issues, the authors demonstrate that these years yield both signs of progress in some areas and the deepening of historical problems in others. The contributors to this book reveal variation among and within countries, and across policy and issue areas such as democratic institution reforms, human rights, minorities' rights, environmental questions, and violence. This focus on issues rather than countries distinguishes the book from other recent volumes on the left in Latin America, and the book will speak to a broad and multi-dimensional audience, both inside and outside the academic world.CONTRIBUTORS: Manuel Balán, Françoise Montambeault, Philip Oxhorn, Maxwell A. Cameron, Kenneth M. Roberts, Nathalia Sandoval-Rojas, Daniel M. Brinks, Benjamin Goldfrank, Roberta Rice, Elizabeth Jelin, Celina Van Dembroucke, Nora Nagels, Merike Blofield, Jordi Díez, Eve Bratman,Gabriel Kessler, Olivier Dabène, Jared Abbot, Steve Levitsky.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balán, Manuel

Montambeault, Françoise

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Manuel Balán is an assistant professor of political science at McGill University and is author of Today's Allies, Tomorrow's Enemies? The Political Dynamics of Corruption Scandals in Latin America, University of Notre Dame Press (forthcoming).

Françoise Montambeault is an associate professor of political science at the University of Montreal and is author of The Politics of Local Participatory Democracy in Latin America.