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Latin America's Radical Left : Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century



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Autore: Ellner Steve Visualizza persona
Titolo: Latin America's Radical Left : Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
Disciplina: 320.53
Soggetto topico: Latin America -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Latin America -- Social conditions -- 21st century
New Left -- Latin America
Power (Social sciences) -- Latin America
Radicalism -- Latin America
Social movements -- Latin America
Radicalism - Latin America
New Left - Latin America
Power (Social sciences) - Latin America
Social movements - Latin America
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Social Conditions
Persona (resp. second.): EllnerSteve
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; I: Theoretical, Historical, and International Background; 1 The Radical Left's Turbulent Transitions; 2 Brief Hypotheses on the State, Democracy, and Revolution in Latin America Today; 3 Institutional Conflict and the Bolivarian Revolution; II: The Twenty-First-Century Radical Left in Power in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador; 4 Social and Political Diversity and the Democratic Road to Change in Venezuela; 5 "Bad Left Government" versus "Good Left Social Movements"?; 6 Rafael Correa and Social Movements in Ecuador
III: Influences of the Twenty-First-Century Radical Left in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Cuba7 The Twenty-First-Century Road to Socialism in El Salvador and Nicaragua; 8 Cuba's New Socialism; IV: Economy, Society, and Media; 9 The Political Economy of Social Production Companies in Venezuela; 10 Constituent Moments, Constitutional Processes; 11 The Good, the Bad, and the Benevolent Interventionist; 12 Concluding Observations; Index; About the Contributors
Sommario/riassunto: This timely book explores the unique challenges facing the left in Latin America today. The contributors offer clear and comprehensive assessments of the difficult conditions and conflicting forces that have brought to power the current leftist regimes in Latin American and the Caribbean and are shaping their development. With its balanced and thorough assessment, this study will provide readers with a deep and nuanced understanding of the complexity of the political, economic, and sociocultural reality of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean.
Titolo autorizzato: Latin America's Radical Left  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4422-2950-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825072203321
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