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Latin America since the left turn
- Title
- Latin America since the left turn / edited by Tulia G. Falleti and Emilio A. Parrado.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] ©2018
- Description
- vii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other contributors
- Falleti, Tulia Gabriela, editor. Parrado, Emilio A., editor.
- Uniform series
- Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction / Tulia G. Falleti and Emilio A. Parrado
- Part I. National and regional models of development. Latin American development : perspectives and debates / Maristella Svampa
- Fiscal policy, income redistribution, and poverty reduction in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay : an overview / Nora Lustig and Claudiney Pereira
- Social investment in Latin America / Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens
- Debt, democracy, and post-neoliberalism : thirty years of regional integration in Latin America / Isabella Alcan̋iz
- Mercosur and regional migration : a human rights approach / Marcela Cerrutti
- Part II. Democracy and its discontents. Venezuela between two states / George Ciccariello-Maher
- From partial to full conflict theory : a neo-Weberian portrait of the battle for Venezuela / David Smilde
- Populism or democracy? : reexamining the role of "the people" in twenty-first-century Latin American politics / Paulina Ochoa Espejo
- Part III. Citizenship, constitutionalism, and participation. Constitutional changes and judicial power in Latin America / Roberto Gargarella
- Agents of neoliberalism? : high courts, legal preferences, and rights in Latin America / Sandra Botero
- Experimenting with participation and deliberation in Latin America : is democracy turning pragmatic? / Thamy Pogrebinschi
- The Gattopardo Era : innovation and representation in Mexico in post-neoliberal times / Gisela Zaremberg, Ernesto Isunza Vera, and Adrian Gurza Lavalle
- Part IV. Race, decolonization, and violence. Anti-imperial, but not decolonial? : Vasconcelos on race and Latin American identity / Juliet Hooker
- Decolonization and plurinationality / Oscar Vega Camacho
- Postwar El Salvador : entangled aftermaths / Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber.
- Summary
- In the early twenty-first century, the citizens of many Latin American countries - such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela - elected left-wing governments, explicitly rejecting and attempting to reverse the politics of neoliberal structural economic adjustment that had prevailed in the region during the 1990s. However, in other countries - such as Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru - continuity and even extension of the neoliberal agenda have been the norm. What were the consequences of rejecting the neoliberal consensus in Latin America? Why did some countries stay on the neoliberal course? Contributors to Latin America Since the Left Turn address these questions and more as they frame the tensions and contradictions that currently characterize Latin American societies and politics. Divided into three sections, the book begins with an examination of the political economy, from models of development, to taxation and spending patterns, to regionalization of trade and human migraiton. The second section analyzes the changes in democracy and political identities. The last part explores the themes of citizenship, constitutionalism, and new forms of civic participation. With essays by the foremost scholars in the field, Latin America Since the Left Turn not only delves into the cases of specific countries but also surveys the region as a whole. -- from dust jacket.
- Subject headings
- New Left--Latin America. Latin America--Economic conditions--History--21st century. Latin America--Politics and government--History--21st century.
- Genre heading
- History.
- ISBN
- 9780812249712 hardcover 0812249712 hardcover
- Standard Identifier
- 99976126422