… reluctance to examine the Venezuelan case, despite the fact … to the Bolivarian model), they
saw the Venezuelan experience … The Bolivarian model of democracy was not regarded by the …

… Venezuela undertook in 1999 a substantive and profound transformation of representative
democracy… an explicit objective distinguishes Venezuela’s democratic proposal from others in …

… government’s participatory initiatives in Venezuela using data from the AmericasBarometer
survey of 2007. This is the first study of the socalled Bolivarian initiatives using nationally …

… on Venezuela’s experiments with participatory democracy, … , Azzellini’s Communes and
Workers’ Control in Venezuela, … description and analysis of Bolivarian experiments in twenty-…

… This is why Washington hates Chávez: not because of his revolutionary rhetoric, not because
of any threat to “democracy”, but because the Venezuelan process offers a real alternative …

… But is Venezuela’s situation a relic of the past or a harbinger of things to come in Latin America
and … This volume addresses this question, as well, as it analyzes the rise of the Bolivarian …

… As mentioned, from the outset of the Bolivarian Revolution, challenges to democracy came
from both sides of the spectrum, but from 2006 onward, the lion’s share of the responsibility in …

Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on participation
and democracy in Venezuela… on the everyday lives of Venezuelans, examining the forms of …

… created in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez. Neither a personalistic conception of populism
nor pure participatory democracy conform to the actual design and practices of Venezuelan …

… of political polarization in Venezuela during the so-called Bolivarian Revolution, led by …
polarization in Venezuela became pernicious, and contributed to erosion of democracy. Given …