This book explores the impact of economic crises and free-market reforms on party systems
and political representation in contemporary Latin America. It explains why some patterns of …

The Politics of Market Discipline in Latin America uses a multi-method approach to
challenge the conventional wisdom that financial markets impose broad and severe …

Since coming to power in 1998, the Chavez government has inspired both fierce internal
debate and horror amongst Western governments accustomed to counting on an obeisant …

The book examines the'Pink Tide'of leftist governments in Latin America struggling against
neoliberal hegemony from a critical International Political Economy perspective. Focusing …

Unlike most other emerging South American democracies, Venezuela has not succumbed to
a successful military coup d'etat during four decades of democratic rule. What drives armed …

While populism is a hotly debated topic around the world, most scholarship suffers from
conceptual confusion and regional singularity. This paper compares European and Latin …

This book aims to explore for the first time in depth the presidency of Hugo Chávez Frías of
Venezuela (1999–present) in the context of theory on populism. In this it hopes to fill a gap in …

In an age of financial globalization, are markets and democracy compatible? For developing
countries, the dramatic internationalization of financial markets over the last two decades …

How Nicolás Maduro reinvented authoritarianism for the twenty-first centurVenezuela, which
once enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the …

Populism in Venezuela analyses the emergence, formation, reproduction and resistance to
a left-wing populist project in a major world oil producer. For readers who seek to …