The Triumph of Politics

The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7456-4749-4
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

The Triumph of Politics offers a comparative and historical interpretation of Venezuela's Chavez, Bolivia's Morales and Ecuador's Correa - South America's most prominent ‘21st century socialists'. It argues that the claims of these 21st century socialists should be taken seriously even though not necessarily at face value.

The authors show how the consensual market oriented policymaking that characterized almost all of South America in the 1990s has now given way to something quite different. Polarization and intense political conflict have returned to much of the region. Although the Left has not always been the beneficiary of this changed pattern, the ‘21st century' governments of Chavez, Morales and Correa have been agenda setters. The questions raised by their emergence, style of governance and policy orientations resonate across Latin America and beyond. It is likely that the kind of politics with which they have been associated will be influential in the region for quite some time to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Philip, George

Panizza, Francisco

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus

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.