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The unraveling of representative democracy in Venezuela /
For four decades, Venezuela prided itself for having one of the most stable representative democracies in Latin America. Then, in 1992, Hugo Chávez Frías attempted an unsuccessful military coup. Six years later, he was elected president. Once in power, Chávez redrafted the 1961 constitution, diss...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I: Antecedents: The Foundations of the Punto Fijo Regime of Representative Democracy
- 1 The Normalization of Punto Fijo Democracy
- PART II: The Actors: Making Political Demands
- 2 Urban Poor and Political Order
- 3 The Military: From Marginalization to Center Stage
- 4 Entrepreneurs: Profits without Power?
- 5 Civil Society: Late Bloomers
- 6 Intellectuals: An Elite Divided
- 7 The United States and Venezuela: From a Special Relationship to Wary Neighbors8 The Unraveling of Venezuela�s Party System: From Party Rule to Personalistic Politics and Deinstitutionalization
- PART III: Policy Making and Its Consequences
- 9 Decentralization: Key to Understanding a Changing Nation
- 10 The Syndrome of Economic Decline and the Quest for Change
- 11 Public Opinion, Political Socialization, and Regime Stabilization
- PART IV: Conclusion
- 12 From Representative to Participatory Democracy? Regime Transformation in Venezuela
- Epilogue
- Notes
- GlossaryReferences
- List of Contributors
- Index
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