Leftist Governments in Latin America (eBook, ePUB)

Successes and Shortcomings
Redaktion: Weyland, Kurt

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 Chavez in Venezuela, have expanded state intervention and popular participation and attained some short-term economic and social successes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316098981
• Artikelnr.: 52824097

Inhaltsangabe

1. The performance of leftist governments in Latin America: conceptual and
theoretical issues Kurt Weyland; 2. The repeating revolution: Chávez's new
politics and old economics Javier Corrales; 3. The challenge of progressive
change under Evo Morales George Gray Molina; 4. The Chilean left in power:
achievements, failures, and omissions Evelyne Huber, Jennifer Pribble and
John D. Stephens; 5. From Cardoso to Lula: the triumph of pragmatism in
Brazil Peter R. Kingstone and Aldo F. Ponce; 6. 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; 7. The policies and performance of the contestatory and
moderate left Raúl Madrid, Wendy Hunter and Kurt Weyland.