Contemporary Left-wing Populism in Latin America: Leadership, Horizontalism, and Postdemocracy in Chávez's Venezuela
| Autor: | Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Nikos Nikisianis, Yannis Stavrakakis, Giorgos Katsambekis, Thomas Siomos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Latin Americans
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 050801 communication & media studies Public administration Democracy 0506 political science Populism 0508 media and communications Horizontalism Political economy Political Science and International Relations Ethnography 050602 political science & public administration Sociology Left-wing politics Empowerment media_common Social movement |
| Zdroj: | Latin American Politics and Society. 58:51-76 |
| ISSN: | 1548-2456 1531-426X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1548-2456.2016.00318.x |
| Popis: | Critical engagement with the case ofChavismoin Venezuela can offer valuable insights for a fuller understanding of contemporary populism in Latin America. While for some scholars Chávez's populism has fostered popular empowerment, others dwell on the newly confirmed tensions between populism, liberal rights, and democratic proceduralism. This article embraces both positions but moves beyond their one-sidedness to castChavistapopulism as an inherently contradictory phenomenon that has constituted an ambivalent and transitory process in response to the gradual closure of liberal (post)democracy.Chavista“caesaro-plebeian” populism is construed as a site of tension and contention, which entails both promises and dangers for democracy. To make these points, the article draws on the discursive analysis of populism and on a new, productive shift in the study of populism in Venezuela, which pursues ethnographic field research on social movements instead of focusing exclusively on the figure of the leader. |
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