Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0822350416 ISBN 13: 9780822350415

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2011

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"Taken together, these chapters make a number of important observations.... The book's main contribution is therefore to highlight some of the tensions that exist within contemporary Venezuelan democracy, and to show the diverse ways in which citizen participation expresses itself. The strength of the book is that it shows that serious empirical research on Venezuela is being undertaken." -- Oliver Heath * Journal of Latin American Studies * "This book evaluates Hugo Chavez's Venezuela with a clear eye. Through nuanced attention to new empirical research in a rapidly changing context-who speaks, what people believe, who decides, and how power works-it offers a framework for analyzing the intertwined democratic and nondemocratic aspects of politics as it is practiced and lived. This multisited approach-looking from neighborhoods to media, activists to government institutions-could be applied with equal success to the postrevolutionary regimes of Cardenas or Castro, the populist governments of Vargas or Peron, and the liberal democracies of the present."-Jeffrey W. Rubin, Boston University "Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy makes it clear that, while transforming the political landscape, the Chavez era also embodies important continuities with the country's recent past. The serious problems that the country faces and the social movements that support Chavez did not emerge overnight; they are rooted in the inequities of the oil economy that took hold during the twentieth century. This book is a must read for anybody trying to make sense of the ongoing process of change that is remaking Venezuela."-Miguel Tinker Salas, author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela "[T]he authors of this volume provide rich material that sheds light on the novelty of the strategies pursued by Chavista leaders and the knotty issues brought to the fore by their initiatives." - Steve Ellner, Latin American Politics and Society "Taken together, these chapters make a number of important observations.... The book's main contribution is therefore to highlight some of the tensions that exist within contemporary Venezuelan democracy, and to show the diverse ways in which citizen participation expresses itself. The strength of the book is that it shows that serious empirical research on Venezuela is being undertaken." - Oliver Heath, Journal of Latin American Studies

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Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on participation and democracy in Venezuela. An interdisciplinary group of contributors focuses on the everyday lives of Venezuelans, examining the forms of participation that have emerged in communal councils, cultural activities, blogs, community media, and several other forums. The essays validate many of the critiques of democracy under Chavez, as well as much of the praise. They show that while government corporatism and clientelism are constant threats, the forms of political and cultural participation discussed are creating new discourses, networks, and organizational spaces-for better and for worse. With open yet critical minds, the contributors seek to analyze Venezuela's Bolivarian democratic experience through empirical research. In doing so, they reveal a nuanced process, a richer and more complex one than is conveyed in international journalism and scholarship exclusively focused on the words and actions of Hugo Chavez.Contributors Carolina Acosta-Alzuru Julia Buxton Luis Duno Gottberg Sujatha Fernandes Maria Pilar Garcia-Guadilla Kirk A. Hawkins Daniel Hellinger Michael E. Johnson Luis E. Lander Margarita Lopez-Maya Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols Coraly Pagan Guillermo Rosas Naomi Schiller David Smilde Alejandro Velasco

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• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0822350416
• ISBN 13: 9780822350415
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 404
• Herausgeber: Smilde