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Author:   David Smilde ,  Daniel Hellinger ,  Julia Buxton ,  Margarita Lopez Maya
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.699kg
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9780822350248

ISBN 10:   0822350246
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   05 August 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword: Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy / Julia Buxton ix Introduction: Participation, Politics, and Culture—Emerging Fragments of Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy / David Smilde 1 1. Defying the Iron Law of Oligarchy I: How Does ""El Pueblo"" Conceive of Democracy? / Daniel Hellinger 28 2. Participatory Democracy in Venezuela: Origins, Ideas, and Implementation / Margarita López Maya and Luis E. Lander 58 3. Urban Land Committees: Co-operation, Autonomy, and Protagonism / María Pilar García-Guadilla 80 4. Catia Sees You: Community Television, Clientelism, and the State in the Chávez Era / Naomi Schiller 105 5. Radio Bemba in an Age of Electronic Media: The Dynamics of Popular Communication in Chávez's Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes 133 6. ""We Are Still Rebels"": The Challenge of Popular History in Bolivarian Venezuela / Alejandro Velasco 159 7. The Misiones of the Chávez Government / Kirk A. Hawkins, Guillermo Rosas, and Michael E. Johnson 188 8. Defying the Iron Law of Oligarchy II: Debating Democracy Online in Venezuela / Daniel Hellinger 221 9. Venezuela's Telenovela: Polarization and Political Discourse in Cosita Rica / Carolina Acosta-Alzuru 246 10. The Color of Mobs: Racial Politics, Ethnopopulism, and Representation in the Chávez Era / Luis Duno Gottberg 273 11. Taking Possession of Public Discourse: Women and the Practice of Political Poetry in Venezuela / Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols 300 12. Christianity and Politics in Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Catholics, Evangelicals, and Political Polarization / David Smilde and Coraly Pagan 317 Afterword: Chavismo and Venezuelan Democracy in a New Decade / Daniel Hellinger 342 References 345 Index"

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This book evaluates Hugo Chavez' Venezuela with a clear eye. Through nuanced attention to new empirical research in a rapidly changing context--who speaks, what people believe, who decides, and how power works--it offers a framework for analyzing the intertwined democratic and non-democratic aspects of politics as it is practiced and lived. This multi-sited approach--looking from neighborhoods to media, activists to government institutions--could be applied with equal success to the post-revolutionary regimes of Cardenas or Castro, the populist governments of Vargas or Peron, and the liberal democracies of the present. --Jeffrey W. Rubin, Boston University

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David Smilde is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia and the president of the Venezuelan Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Qualitative Sociology and the author of Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism. Daniel Hellinger is Professor of Political Science at Webster University in St. Louis and the former president of the Venezuelan Studies Section. He is the author of Comparative Politics of Latin America: Democracy at Last? and a co-editor of Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization, and Conflict.

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