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Vox populi
Una obra novedosa y útil que responde a reflexiones y cuestionamientos que giran en torno al “fantasma del populismo”: ¿cuál es la relación del populismo con la democracia?, ¿por qué su reaparición genera reacciones tan virulentas?, y ¿el resurgimiento del populismo es un síntoma de la democracia procedimental para resolver los problemas de miseria e injusticia social en Latinoamérica?
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Procesos políticos de América Latina
Una incisiva lectura crítica del neoliberalismo que ha dominado en América Latina desde la década de los ochenta, un modelo que lejos de resolver los problemas crónicos de la región, concentró la riqueza, debilitó las instancias estatales de integración y fortaleció las represivas, condenó por “organicista” la presencia estatal, invocó la modernización y la competitividad, pero acentuó las asimetrías entre el capital y el trabajo, precarizó a los más vulnerables, y redefinió la democracia a meros procedimientos electorales. Esta obra explora innovadoramente tales resultados.
The Populist Manifesto
This volume brings together a range of scholars dissatisfied with the mainstream of the populism debate. It intends to bring forward a perspective which envisions populism not simply as a negative aspect of politics, but as a way of doing politics. Contemporary politics has been characterised by the overarching presence of populism, while simultaneously engendering a sense of fear and extremism around the results of populist movements. This collection intends to unpack the true potential for movements from and by the people, linking these historically and offering a new lens for thinking about contemporary populism. What can we learn from recent events? How can these lessons inform how we think about politics for the future? Offering this approach, from the perspective of populist potential, will help us answer these questions and open the debate with contributors from countries or regions that have a tradition of populism, privileging them with a deeper understanding.
Mexico's Human Rights Crisis
Lawless elements are ascendant in Mexico, as evidenced by the operations of criminal cartels engaged in human and drug trafficking, often with the active support or acquiescence of government actors. The sharp increase in the number of victims of homicide, disappearances and torture over the past decade is unparalleled in the country's recent history. According to editors Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz and Barbara Frey, the "war on drugs" launched in 2006 by President Felipe Calderón and the corrupting influence criminal organizations have on public institutions have empowered both state and nonstate actors to operate with impunity. Impunity, they argue, is the root cause that has enabled a human-r...
Resisting Backsliding
In the past two decades, democratically elected executives across the world have used their popularity to push for legislation that, over time, destroys systems of checks and balances, hinders free and fair elections, and undermines political rights and civil liberties. Using and abusing institutions and institutional reform, some executives have transformed their countries' democracies into competitive authoritarian regimes. Others, however, have failed to erode democracy. What explains these different outcomes? Resisting Backsliding answers this question. With a focus on the cases of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Alvaro Uribe in Colombia, the book shows that the strategies and goals of the opposition are key to understanding why some executives successfully erode democracy and others do not. By highlighting the role of the opposition, this book emphasizes the importance of agency for understanding democratic backsliding and shows that even weak oppositions can defeat strong potential autocrats.
Política y sociedad en México
Una obra que contiene una original perspectiva de las temáticas que actualmente son referencia obligada en el debate político mexicano: la democracia, el populismo y el conflicto social, cuestiones que son discutidas a partir de algunos hitos fundacionales de la política contemporánea en México y del análisis de recientes hechos sociales tan cruciales como el proceso electoral de 2006 o el movimiento que en el mismo año se desarrolló en Oaxaca.
