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Author Corrales, Javier, 1966- author.

Title Dragon in the tropics : the legacy of Hugo Chávez / Javier Corrales, Michael Penfold.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2015.
©2015

Item Status

Edition Second edition.
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series A Brookings Latin America Initiative book
Brookings Latin America Initiative book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index.
Contents Introduction : the Chávez revolution in perspective -- Power grabbing and the rise of a hybrid regime in Venezuela, 1999-2009 -- Economic policy and the oil honey pot -- Institutional resource curse : seizing political control of PDVSA -- Venezuela's new foreign policy : soft-balancing and social-power diplomacy -- Hybrid regimes and populism in comparative perspective -- Dragon no more : the politics of succession -- linkages abroad and factional struggles at home -- The less competitive, more authoritarian regime -- Conclusion : hybrid regimes and regime change.
Summary "A study of the Venezuelan revolution headed by Hugo Chávez, first elected president in 1999, with emphasis on how Chávez took a frail but still pluralistic democracy and turned it into a semi-authoritarian regime, achieving political transformation at great cost to the country's institutions, including its oil industry"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Chávez Frías, Hugo.
Chávez Frías, Hugo.
Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1999-
Venezuela.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1999-
Subject Venezuela -- Economic policy.
Economic policy.
Venezuela -- Foreign relations -- 1999-
International relations.
Chronological Term Since 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Penfold-Becerra, Michael, author.
Note Subtitle on cover: Venezuela and the legacy of Hugo Chávez
Other Form: Print version: Corrales, Javier, 1966- Dragon in the tropics. Second edition. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2015 9780815725930 (OCoLC)892563780
ISBN 9780815725947 (electronic book)
0815725949 (electronic book)
9780815725930
0815725930
Music No. EB00641847 Recorded Books