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Dragon in the Tropics
The authors draw on their more than 15 years' experience researching Venezuela to examine the political rise of President Hugo Chávez, offering their own analyses of key issues, including their belief that oil wealth alone fails to explain the Venezuelan leader's success. Original.
Dragon in the Tropics
"This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropics—the widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chávez (1999–2013) revamped Venezuela’s political economy—examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez’s death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, to cope with the economic chaos inherited from previous radical populist policies. Corrales and Penfold argue that Maduro has had to struggle with the inherent contradictions of a large and heterogeneous social coalition, a declining oil sector, the strength of entrenched military interests, and fewer resources to appease international allies, which have strenghtened the autocratic features of an already consolidated hybrid regime. In examining the new political realities of Venezuela, the authors offer lessons on the dynamics of succession in hybrid regimes. This book is a must-read for scholars and analysts of Latin America. "
Federalism and Democracy in Latin America
Using theoretical essays and case studies, the authors address questions of how and when federal institutions matter for politics, policy-making and democratic practice. They also offer conceptual approaches for studying federal systems, their origins and their internal dynamics. We live in an increasingly federalized world. This fact has generated interest in how federal institutions shape politics, policy-making and the quality of life of those living in federal systems. In this book, Edward L. Gibson brings together a group of scholars to examine the Latin American experience with federalism and to advance our theoretical understanding of politics in federal systems. By means of theoretic...
Un dragón en el trópico
Cuando este libro se publicó en Estados Unidos provocó elogios de intelectuales como Jorge Castañeda y Moisés Naím, quienes lo señalaron como el trabajo más objetivo y riguroso para explicar la economía política de la revolución chavista. En el año 2011, la prestigiosa revista Foreign Affairs lo estimó como el mejor libro del año en relaciones internacionales en el Hemisferio Occidental.
Dos tradiciones, un conflicto
Para el prestigioso politólogo venezolano Michael Penfold, dos tradiciones atraviesan la historia de la Venezuela moderna y desembocan en el presente: la tradición del personalismo autoritario, y la tradición cívica, que promueve la descentralización del poder. Mucho de lo que ocurre en nuestro país se puede explicar por el enfrentamiento entre esas dos tradiciones, así como la frecuencia por la cual la primera se ha impuesto sobre la segunda. Este libro parte del estudio del pasado y el presente de Venezuela y la región para emprender una anatomía del poder chavista desde esa perspectiva del conflicto entre esas dos tradiciones, un conflicto que trasciende la competencia de poder entre Caracas y las regiones o entre gobierno y oposición, para atravesar por entero las relaciones entre Estado y ciudadanía. Con prólogo del desaparecido profesor Asdrúbal Baptista, este libro nacido originalmente en una tesis doctoral para la Universidad de Columbia vuelve a nosotros para confrontarnos con lo que no hemos resuelto y seguimos necesitando resolver.
Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America
Explores the variation in welfare and other social assistance policies in Latin America.
Development, Democracy, and Welfare States
This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman trace the historical origins of social policy in these regions to crucial political changes in the mid-twentieth century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization. After World War II, communist regimes in Eastern Europe adopted wide-ranging socialist entitlements while conservative dictatorships in East Asia sharply limited social security but invested in education. In Latin America, where welfare systems were instituted earlier, unequal social-security systems fa...
Ethnicity and Elections in Turkey
Ethnicity and Elections in Turkey attempts to understand the mobilization strategies of incumbent parties to consolidate and increase their support among swing voters of an ethnic group. By analyzing the strategy of AKP on voters of Kurdish origin, it investigates the conditions under which it can mobilize them through the clientelistic network and its effectiveness in increasing support for the party. This investigation is conducted through a district and neighborhood level case study conducted in the districts of Beyoğlu, Sancaktepe and Beykoz situated in Istanbul. The main hypotheses are tested through five different steps. Firstly, an examination of electoral results identifies a large ...
From Windfall to Curse?
Since the discovery of abundant oil resources in the 1920s, Venezuela has had an economically privileged position among the nations of Latin America, which has led to its being treated by economic and political analysts as an exceptional case. In her well-known study of Venezuela’s political economy, The Paradox of Plenty (1997), Stanford political scientist Terry Karl argued that this oil wealth induced extraordinary corruption, rent-seeking, and centralized intervention that resulted in restricting productivity and growth. What this and other studies of Venezuela’s economy fail to explain, however, is how such conditions have accompanied both growth and stagnation at different periods ...
