Political Attitudes In Venezuela

Author : Enrique A. Baloyra,John D. Martz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780292769687

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Political Attitudes in Venezuela by Enrique A. Baloyra,John D. Martz Pdf

Here is a benchmark study of voter attitudes in a Latin American country. This volume is based on extensive survey research conducted during the Venezuelan elections of 1973. The methods employed by Baloyra and Martz to poll an "unpollable" society successfully challenge previously established paradigms. The authors interviewed a representative sample of over 1,500 voters to determine relationships between class, status, community, context, religion, ideology, and partisanship on the one hand and political attitudes and preferences on the other. They found that the Venezuelan electorate is defined by a series of contradictory tendencies, and they place their conclusions in the context of contemporary political science literature regarding class and party, ideology and party, and inequality and participation.

Author : Steve Ellner,Daniel Hellinger
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1588262979

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Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era by Steve Ellner,Daniel Hellinger Pdf

The radical alteration of the political landscape in Venezuela following the electoral triumph of the controversial Hugo Chavez calls for a fresh look at the country s institutions and policies. In response, this title offers a revisionist view of Venezuela's recent political history and a fresh appraisal of the Chavez administration.

Author : Julia Buxton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000156614

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The Failure of Political Reform in Venezuela by Julia Buxton Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. The victory of former lieutenant colonel Hugo Chavez in the Venezuelan presidential elections of 1998 was criticized as a blow against the country's deep-seated democratic tradition. It is claimed that this simplistic argument fails to recognize the extent of democratic deterioration in the country and the limitations imposed by discredited political actors on a meaningful democratic reform process. The book aims to break new ground in providing unseen evidence of electoral fraud and offers a fresh perspective on the nature of democratic development.

Author : Richard Gott
Publisher : Verso
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Civil-military relations
ISBN : 1859847757

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In the Shadow of the Liberator by Richard Gott Pdf

In a first-hand report from Venezuela, veteran correspondent Richard Gott places the county's controversial president in historical perspective. Examining Chavez's plans and programmes and the support these attract, Gott argues that this unique experiment may prove a new way forward for Latin America.

Author : Reuben Zahler
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816521128

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Ambitious Rebels by Reuben Zahler Pdf

"By examining everyday life in Venezuela's post-colonial period, Reuben Zahler provides a broad perspective on conditions throughout the Americas and the tension between traditional norms and new liberal standards during Venezuela's transformation from aSpanish colony to a modern republic"--

Author : Steve Ellner
Publisher : Durham : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014759685

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Venezuela's Movimiento Al Socialismo by Steve Ellner Pdf

Teodoro Petkoff and the other members of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) in Venezuela had aroused the ire of the orthodox communist leaders by claiming to be both authentic communists and true nationalists, not bound by the dictates of either the Moscow or Maoist/Beijing wings of the party. To infuriate the traditionalists even further, Petkoff and his associates succeeded in being more than isolated critics, as MAS quickly eclipsed the traditional Venezuelan Communist Party and became that country's leading leftist group. The author places MAS in its international national, and historical contexts in order to determine the extent to which it is a unique communist party, as it claims to be. He traces the theory of "national democratic revolution, " which MAS rejects, back to Lenin, and discusses the Latin American left's reevaluation of that thesis. Ellner examines the guerrilla movement in Venezuela, the student movement of the late 1960s, and the emergence of the "New Left" in other countries, especially noting their influence on the formation of MAS. He also discusses the group's role in Venezuelan elections and it's relations with the other parties.

Author : Howard I. Blutstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Venezuela
ISBN : UIUC:30112104121832

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Area Handbook for Venezuela by Howard I. Blutstein Pdf

Author : Julia Buxton,Nicola Phillips
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0719054575

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Case Studies in Latin American Political Economy by Julia Buxton,Nicola Phillips Pdf

Covering the period from the re-establishment of the Irish militia during the Crimean War until the disbandment of the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1992, this book examines the Irish amateur military tradition within the British Army, distinctive from a British amateur military tradition. Irish men and women of both religions and political persuasions made a significant contribution to these forces, and in so doing played an important role within the British Empire, whilst also providing a crucial link between the army and Irish society.Utilising new source material, this book demonstrates the complex nature of Irish involvement with British institutions and its Empire. It argues that within this unique tradition, two divergent Protestant and Catholic traditions emerged, and membership of these organisations was used as a means of social mobility, for political patronage, and, crucially, to demonstrate loyalty to Britain and its Empire.

Author : Scott Mainwaring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107175525

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Party Systems in Latin America by Scott Mainwaring Pdf

This book generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems and contributes richly to major theoretical debates about party systems and democracy.

Author : Michael Derham
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political culture
ISBN : 303430109X

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Politics in Venezuela by Michael Derham Pdf

Hugo Chávez is heavily criticised by the international political class and the press and media. He is dismissed academically as a populista and dismissed more generally as a rabble rouser. However, a lot of the criticism and reporting lacks context.

Author : Ricardo Hausmann,Francisco R. Rodríguez
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271064642

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Venezuela Before Chávez by Ricardo Hausmann,Francisco R. Rodríguez Pdf

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest countries in the world, ahead of countries such as Greece, Israel, and Spain. Between 1978 and 2001, however, Venezuela’s economy went sharply in reverse, with non-oil GDP declining by almost 19 percent and oil GDP by an astonishing 65 percent. What accounts for this drastic turnabout? The editors of Venezuela Before Chávez, who each played a policymaking role in the country’s economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to examine systematically the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy’s collapse, from the cost of labor regulation and the development of financial markets to the weakening of democratic governance and the politics of decisions about industrial policy. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Omar Bello, Adriana Bermúdez, Matías Braun, Javier Corrales, Jonathan Di John, Rafael Di Tella, Javier Donna, Samuel Freije, Dan Levy, Robert MacCulloch, Osmel Manzano, Francisco Monaldi, María Antonia Moreno, Daniel Ortega, Michael Penfold, José Pineda, Lant Pritchett, Cameron A. Shelton, and Dean Yang.

Author : Myron Weiner,Ergun Özbudun
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0822307669

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Competitive Elections in Developing Countries by Myron Weiner,Ergun Özbudun Pdf

This is the latest in the At the Polls series, in which Duke University Press has joined with the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research to publish studies on the electoral process as it functions around the world. Cited by Choice for its "high standard of scholarly analysis and objectivity," the series provides both a chronicle of events and a thorough analysis of the election results.

Author : Javier Corrales,Michael Penfold
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815725947

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Dragon in the Tropics by Javier Corrales,Michael Penfold Pdf

"This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropics—the widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chávez (1999–2013) revamped Venezuela’s political economy—examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez’s death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, to cope with the economic chaos inherited from previous radical populist policies. Corrales and Penfold argue that Maduro has had to struggle with the inherent contradictions of a large and heterogeneous social coalition, a declining oil sector, the strength of entrenched military interests, and fewer resources to appease international allies, which have strenghtened the autocratic features of an already consolidated hybrid regime. In examining the new political realities of Venezuela, the authors offer lessons on the dynamics of succession in hybrid regimes. This book is a must-read for scholars and analysts of Latin America. "

Author : Charles L. Davis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813162805

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Working-Class Mobilization and Political Control by Charles L. Davis Pdf

Historically, Latin American political regimes have sought to postpone far-reaching economic reforms and improvements in living standards in order to facilitate the accumulation of private capital. These goals have led to exclusion of the lower classes from the political process altogether or to efforts to control their political mobilization. The ability of governments to maintain such control has often been attributed to the lack of political sophistication by the working class or to the distribution of benefits through patron-client networks designed to preserve the hegemony of ruling parties. Using new survey data from 500 industrial workers in Mexico and Venezuela, Charles L. Davis now questions these conventional explanations and two others: that industrial workers are part of a "labor aristocracy" and are therefore content with the performance of the capitalist regimes, and that political control is exercised through restriction of partisan competition and thus of opportunities for workers to challenge developmental priorities and public policy goals. Davis's study demonstrates that working-class mobilization is more firmly controlled in Mexico's one-party dominant political system than in Venezuela's two-party system. He finds little evidence that political participation in either country is guided by labor unions with ties to dominant parties. Nor are these workers content with the performance of the regimes or lacking in political sophistication. The primary explanation for their psychological disengagement from politics and avoidance of protest voting appears to be the lack of meaningful electoral options. Davis's two case studies provide important new insights into an issue that appears certain to remain ex-plosive as dissident labor leaders in Latin America seek to mobilize working-class opposition to existing state developmental strategies.

Author : Ronald M. Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429970047

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Comparative Latin American Politics by Ronald M. Schneider Pdf

Latin America is a region of great diversity and a rich laboratory for understanding the processes of political development and their interaction with economic growth, social modernization, and cultural influences. Highlighting crucial periods of dynamic socioeconomic and political change, Comparative Latin American Politics provides a balanced, concise overview of select Latin American countries without underestimating the complexities of a region noted for its striking differences. The book focuses on the dominant dyad of Mexico and Brazil while also considering in detail Argentina, Chile, Peru, Columbia, and Venezuela - seven countries that contain four-fifths of the region's inhabitants as well as an even higher proportion of its economy. Recognizing that political institutions and cultures are built over generations, author Ronald M. Schneider divides his analysis into two parts. Part one examines the period from independence to 1930, when countries were coping with an array of post-independence problems and challenges of national consolidation. Part two concentrates on 1930 to the present day and fleshes out current political practices and structures. Each part devotes chapters to specific country coverage as well as meaningful comparative perspectives that illuminate the political evolution of the region and offer salient lessons for other developing parts of the world.