Latin America’s Left Turns : : Politics, Policies, and Trajectories of Change / / ed. by Eric Hershberg, Maxwell A. Cameron.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Anria, Santiago,; Arditi, Benjamin,; Beasley-Murray, Jon,; Cameron, Maxwell A.,; Filgueira, Fernando,; French, John D.,; Haslam, Paul Alexander,; Hershberg, Eric,; Luna, Juan Pablo,; McCoy, Jennifer,; Moreno-Brid, Juan Carlos,; Paunovic, Igor,; Reygadas, Luis,; Sharpe, Kenneth E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cameron, Maxwell A.,; Hershberg, Eric ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 p.)

Explores how, and to what effect, diverse forces on the left in Latin American politics have taken hold of the reins of government.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Latin America’s Left Turns: A Tour d’Horizon
• Part 1 Thinking About the Left
• 2 The Left Turns: Why They Happened and How They Compare
• 3 Many Lefts, One Path? Chávez and Lula
• 4 Andean Left Turns: Constituent Power and Constitution Making
• Part 2 Politics Beyond Liberalism
• 5 Venezuela Under Chávez: Beyond Liberalism
• 6 Bolivia’s MAS: Between Party and Movement
• 7 Constituent Power and the Caracazo: The Exemplary Case of Venezuela
• 8 Arguments About the Left: A Post-Liberal Politics?
• Part 3 Issues of Political Economy
• 9 Inequality and the Incorporation Crisis: The Left’s Social Policy Toolkit
• 10 Macroeconomic Policies of the New Left: Rhetoric and Reality
• 11 Foreign Investors over a Barrel: Nationalizations and Investment Policy
• Part 4 Conclusion
• 12 Latin America’s Left: The Impact of the External Environment
• References
• The Contributors
• Index
• About the Book