Deepening Democracy in Post-Neoliberal Bolivia and Venezuela: Advances and Setbacks

ISBN-13: 9781032201481 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 236 str.

John Brown

Opis

This book provides a timely and nuanced analysis of the successes and shortcoming of efforts to move beyond market democracy in Bolivia and Venezuela. It will be of interest to researchers studying Latin America, as well as those specialising in development and political science more broadly.

Recenzje

"Deepening Democracy in Post-Neoliberal Bolivia and Venezuela is an outstandingly researched, much welcome advance on what it means to "deepen democracy" and the conditions that might help to achieve it, moving us beyond what has become a sterile debate over liberal democracy and radically progressive reformist politics."

Eduardo Silva, Lydian Chair of Political Science, Tulane University, USA

 

"Brilliantly researched, this is a major contribution to academic understanding to the crisis of democracy in Latin America and the tensions between markets, on the one hand, and demands for dignity and citizenship, on the other. A detailed study of anti-system outsider government in Venezuela and Bolivia, it is a valuable contribution to the comparative political economy of the left, and a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary debates about democratisation and populism."

Jean Grugel, Co-Director of Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC), University of York, UK

"John Brown's debut monograph breaks new ground in the unfolding debate around the relationship between progressive governments and social movements in Latin America with a theoretically informed dense ethnography of Bolivia and Venezuela. It will be indispensable to students of Latin America and of comparative politics more generally. Recommended."

Ronaldo Munck, Dublin City University, Ireland

Spis treści

Introduction: The crisis of market democracy and the emergence of anti-system outsiders.  1: Re-conceptualizing democratization in progressive-outsider cases.  2: Crisis of market democracy and making space for outsider Hugo Chávez: Venezuela in historical context.  3: Progressive and regressive centralization: the Hugo Chávez years, 1999-2013.  4: From regressive to authoritarian centralization: Nicolás Maduro, 2013-21.  5: Crisis of market democracy and making space for outsider Evo Morales: Bolivia in historical context.  6: Progressive and regressive centralization: the Evo Morales’ years, 2006-14.  7: Splits in the popular base, the return of the opposition, and the removal of Evo Morales, 2014-21.  8: Venezuela and Bolivia in comparison: toward a typological theory of outsider-led, post-neoliberal democratization.  Conclusion: oligarchy, populisms, and pathways out of the crisis of democracy.

O autorze

John Brown is a lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Politics, Maynooth University, Ireland.