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Author Falleti, Tulia G

Title Latin America since the Left Turn
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (385 pages)
Series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Ser
Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Ser
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART I. NATIONAL AND REGIONAL MODELS OF DEVELOPMENT; 1. Latin American Development: Perspectives and Debates; 2. Fiscal Policy, Income Re distribution, and Poverty Reduction in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay: An Overview; 3. Social Investment in Latin America; 4. Debt, Democracy, and Post- Neoliberalism: Thirty Years of Regional Integration in Latin America; 5. Mercosur and Regional Migration: A Human Rights Approach; PART II. DEMOCRACY AND ITS DISCONTENTS; 6. Venezuela Between Two States
7. From Partial to Full Conflict Theory: A Neo-Weberian Portrait of the Battle for Venezuela8. Populism or Democracy? Reexamining the Role of "the People" in Twenty- First-Century Latin American Politics; PART III. CITIZENSHIP, CONSTITUTIONALISM, AND PARTICIPATION; 9. Constitutional Changes and Judicial Power in Latin America; 10. Agents of Neoliberalism? High Courts, Legal Preferences, and Rights in Latin America; 11. Experimenting with Participation and Deliberation in Latin America: Is Democracy Turning Pragmatic?
12. The Gattopardo Era: Innovation and Representation in Mexico in Post-Neoliberal TimesPART IV. RACE, DECOLONIZATION, AND VIOLENCE; 13. Anti-imperial, But Not Decolonial? Vasconcelos on Race and Latin American Identity; 14. Decolonization and Plurinationality; 15. Postwar El Salvador: Entangled Aftermaths; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments
Summary Latin America Since the Left Turn frames the tensions and contradictions that currently characterize Latin American societies and politics in the early decades of the twenty-first century, when many countries elected left-wing governments in an attempt to reverse the neoliberal agenda while others continued and even extended it
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Subject New Left -- Latin America
HISTORY / Latin America / General.
HISTORY / Latin America / South America.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy.
New Left.
Latin America.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Parrado, Emilio A
ISBN 9780812294552
0812294556