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Apaciguamiento
¿Cómo se defiende una democracia de los líderes que alcanzan el poder mediante mecanismos democráticos? ¿Cuál ha de ser la vía para enfrentar a los autócratas que, al calor del apoyo popular, pretenden hacerse con el poder absoluto? Estos son los dilemas que se le presentaron tanto a los demócratas venezolanos como a los mediadores de la Organización de Estados Americanos y el Centro Carter ante el ascenso de la "Revolución Bolivariana". Las dificultades para comprender la naturaleza de la amenaza en ciernes, así como las dudas, errores y concesiones que tuvieron lugar ante los pasos que Hugo Chávez y su régimen fueron dando progresivamente hacia el control total de las institu...
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.
The Authoritarian Divide
In the context of the global decline of democracy, The Authoritarian Divide analyzes the tactics that populist leaders in Turkey, Venezuela, and Ecuador have used to polarize their countries. Political polarization is traditionally viewed as the result of competing left/right ideologies. In The Authoritarian Divide, Orçun Selçuk argues that, regardless of ideology, polarization is driven by dominant populist leaders who deliberately divide constituents by cultivating a dichotomy of inclusion and exclusion. This practice, known as affective leader polarization, stymies compromise and undermines the democratic process. Drawing on multiple qualitative and quantitative methodologies for support, as well as content from propaganda media such as public speeches, Muhtar Meetings, Aló Presidente, and Enlace Ciudadano, Selçuk details and analyzes the tactics used by three well-known populist leaders to fuel affective leader polarization: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, and Rafael Correa in Ecuador. Selçuk’s work provides a rubric for a better understanding of—and potential defense against—the rise in polarizing populism across the globe.
Roots of Underdevelopment
This book brings together world-renowned experts and rising scholars to provide a collection of chapters examining the long-term impact of historical events on modern-day economic and political developments in Latin America. It uses a novel approach, stressing empirical contributions and state-of-the-art empirical methods for causal identification. Contributing authors apply these cutting-edge tools to their topics of expertise, giving readers a compendium of frontier research in the region. Important questions of colonialism, migration, elites, land tenure, corruption, and conflict are examined and discussed in an approachable style. The book features a conclusion from Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. This book is critical reader for scholars and students of economic history, political science, political economy, development studies, and Latin American, and Caribbean studies.
Adaptive Peacebuilding
This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also considers how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on how peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate programs to sustain peace, how interactions between external and local actors have facilitated or hindered peacemaking, and how adaptation to complexity and uncertainty occurred in each case study.
Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 75
The 2021 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies.
The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements
Andrews-Lee offers a novel explanation for the persistence of charismatic movements and highlights the resulting challenges for democracy.
Exit from Democracy
Democratic government is facing unprecedented challenges at a global scale. Yet, Turkey's descent into conflict, crisis and autocracy is exceptional. Only a few years ago, the country was praised as a successful Muslim-majority democracy and a promising example of sustainable growth. In Turkey’s Exit from Democracy, the contributors argue that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party government have now effectively abandoned the realm of democratic politics by attempting regime change with the aim to install a hyper-presidentialist system. Examining how this power grab comes at the tail end of more than a decade of seemingly democratic politics, the contributor...
¿Quiénes somos nosotros? O cómo (no) hablar en primera persona del plural
Con excepciones notables, el uso de la primera persona del plural es prácticamente inexistente en filosofía. Traspasar el umbral del yo para asumir el nosotros genera sospechas éticas y está expuesto a diversas precauciones lógicas y argumentos escépticos, además de la objeción fundamental según la cual no hay un sujeto de enunciación colectiva, y menos un nosotros que pueda ser sujeto de conocimiento. Frente a esta condición del discurso filosófico , contrasta la abundancia de enunciados sociales, antropológicos, políticos e institucionales que han hecho del nosotros una instancia inevitable para la construcción de ideales éticos, políticas públicas y pertenencias territoriales
