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Title Leftist governments in Latin America : successes and shortcomings / edited by Kurt Weyland, Raúl L. Madrid, Wendy Hunter.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 216 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "Can Latin America's "new left" stimulate economic development, enhance social equity, and deepen democracy in spite of the economic and political constraints it faces? This is the first book to systematically examine the policies and performance of the left-wing governments that have risen to power in Latin America during the last decade. Featuring thorough studies of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela by renowned experts, the volume argues that moderate leftist governments have attained greater, more sustainable success than their more radical, contestatory counterparts. Moderate governments in Brazil and Chile have generated solid economic growth, reduced poverty and inequality, and created innovative and fiscally sound social programs, while respecting the fundamental principles of market economics and liberal democracy. By contrast, more radical governments, exemplified by Hugo Chv̀ez in Venezuela, have expanded state intervention and popular participation and attained some short-term economic and social successes, but they have provoked severe conflict, undermined democracy, and failed to ensure the economic and institutional sustainability of their policy projects"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Performance of leftist governments in Latin America : conceptual and theoretical issues / Kurt Weyland -- Repeating revolution : Chávez's new politics and old economics / Javier Corrales -- Challenge of progressive change under Evo Morales / George Gray Molina -- Chilean left in power : achievements, failures, and omissions / Evelyne Huber, Jennifer Pribble, and John D. Stephens -- From Cardoso to Lula : the triumph of pragmatism in Brazil / Peter R. Kingstone and Aldo F. Ponce -- Lula's administration at a crossroads : the difficult combination of stability and development in Brazil / Pedro Luiz Barros Silva, José Carlos de Souza Braga, and Vera Lúcia Cabral Costa -- Policies and performance of the contestatory and moderate left / Raúl Madrid, Wendy Hunter, and Kurt Weyland.
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Subject Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980-
Latin America.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1980-
Subject Socialism -- Latin America.
Socialism.
Chronological Term Since 1980
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Weyland, Kurt Gerhard.
Madrid, Raúl L.
Hunter, Wendy.
Other Form: Print version: Leftist governments in Latin America. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521762205 (DLC) 2010000987 (OCoLC)501320833
ISBN 9780511776809 (electronic book)
0511776802 (electronic book)
9786612724909
6612724900