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Description:Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Ch�vez Fr�as has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regime--an outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support. This eye-opening book illuminates one of the most sweeping and unexpected political transformations in contemporary Latin America.Based on more than fifteen years' experience in researching and writing about Venezuela, Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold have crafted a comprehensive account of how the Ch�vez regime has revamped the nation, with a particular focus on its political transformation. Throughout, they take issue with conventional explanations. First, they argue persuasively that liberal democracy as an institution was not to blame for the rise of chavismo. Second, they assert that the nation's economic ailments were not caused by neoliberalism. Instead they blame other factors, including a dependence on oil, which caused macroeconomic volatility; political party fragmentation, which triggered infighting; government mismanagement of the banking crisis, which led to more centralization of power; and the Asian crisis of 1997, which devastated Venezuela's economy at the same time that Ch�vez ran for president.It is perhaps on the role of oil that the authors take greatest issue with prevailing opinion. They do not dispute that dependence on oil can generate political and economic distortions--the "resource curse" or "paradox of plenty" arguments--but they counter that oil alone fails to explain Ch�vez's rise. Instead they single out a weak framework of checks and balances that allowed the executive branch to extract oil rents and distribute them to the populace. The real culprit behind Ch�vez's success, they write, was the asymmetry of political power.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Chavez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela. To get started finding Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Chavez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 195

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Release: 2011

ISBN: 0815705026

Description: Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Ch�vez Fr�as has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regime--an outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support. This eye-opening book illuminates one of the most sweeping and unexpected political transformations in contemporary Latin America.Based on more than fifteen years' experience in researching and writing about Venezuela, Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold have crafted a comprehensive account of how the Ch�vez regime has revamped the nation, with a particular focus on its political transformation. Throughout, they take issue with conventional explanations. First, they argue persuasively that liberal democracy as an institution was not to blame for the rise of chavismo. Second, they assert that the nation's economic ailments were not caused by neoliberalism. Instead they blame other factors, including a dependence on oil, which caused macroeconomic volatility; political party fragmentation, which triggered infighting; government mismanagement of the banking crisis, which led to more centralization of power; and the Asian crisis of 1997, which devastated Venezuela's economy at the same time that Ch�vez ran for president.It is perhaps on the role of oil that the authors take greatest issue with prevailing opinion. They do not dispute that dependence on oil can generate political and economic distortions--the "resource curse" or "paradox of plenty" arguments--but they counter that oil alone fails to explain Ch�vez's rise. Instead they single out a weak framework of checks and balances that allowed the executive branch to extract oil rents and distribute them to the populace. The real culprit behind Ch�vez's success, they write, was the asymmetry of political power.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Chavez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela. To get started finding Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Chavez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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