Venezuela : Hugo Chávez and the decline of an "exceptional democracy" /
This authoritative book offers a comprehensive assessment of contemporary Venezuela. Analyzing the multifaceted phenomenon of Hugo Chavez, leading scholars move beyond his flamboyant style to focus on the concerns of popular social and political movements. The book challenges the misleading notions...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub.,
©2007.
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| Series: | Latin American perspectives in the classroom.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : new perspectives and the Chavez phenomenon / Steve Ellner and Miguel Tinker Salas
- The Venezuelan exceptionalism thesis : separating myth from reality / Steve Ellner and Miguel Tinker Salas
- Venezuelan social conflict in a global context / Edgardo Lander
- U.S. oil companies in Venezuela : the forging of an enduring alliance / Miguel Tinker Salas
- Chávez and the search for an alternative to neoliberalism / Dick Parker
- Trade union autonomy and the emergence of a new labor movement in Venezuela / Steve Ellner
- Ethnicity and revolution : the political economy of racism in Venezuela / Jesús María Herrera Salas
- Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution : who are the Chavistas? / Cristóbal Valencia Ramírez
- Social movements in a polarized setting : myths of Venezuelan civil society / María Pilar García-Guadilla
- When "no" means "yes to revolution" : electoral politics in Bolivarian Venezuela / Daniel Hellinger
- Confronting Hugo Chavez : U.S. "democracy promotion" in Latin America / Christopher I. Clement.
