Rethinking Venezuelan politics
Subtitle: class, conflict, and the Chávez phenomenon
By: Steve Ellner
Publisher: Lynne Rienner
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781588265609
Subjects: Chávez Frías, Hugo; Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1999-; Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1958-1974; Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1974-1999
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-246) and index
Table of contents: title: Rethinking Venezuelan politics; title: From the Colonial Period to 1958 : a brief  overview; title: Venezuela's "model" democracy, 1958-1989; title: Neoliberal reforms and political crisis, 1989-1999; title: The four stages of the Chávez presidency; title: Conflicting currents in the Chávez movement; title: The Chávez movement's top-down and grassroots approaches; title: The Chávez government in the international arena