Venezuela's Bolivarian democracy
Subtitle: participation, politics, and culture under Chávez
By: David Smilde and Daniel Hellinger, editors
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780822350248; 9780822350415
Subjects: Politics and government; Representative government and representation; Political participation; Democracy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defying the iron law of oligarchy I : how does "el pueblo" conceive of democracy? / Daniel Hellinger; title: Participatory democracy in Venezuela : origins, ideas, and implementation / Margarita López Maya and Luis E. Lander; title: Urban land committees : co-optation, autonomy, and protagonism / María Pilar García-Guadilla; title: Catia sees you : community television, clientelism, and the state in the Chávez era / Naomi Schiller; title: Radio Bemba in an age of electronic media : the dynamics of popular communication in Chávez's Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes; title: "We are still rebels" : the challenge of popular history in Bolivarian Venezuela / Alejandro Velasco; title: The misiones of the Chávez government / Kirk A. Hawkins, Guillermo Rosas, and Michael E. Johnson; title: Defying the iron law of oligarchy II : debating democracy online in Venezuela / Daniel Hellinger; title: Venezuela's telenovela : polarization and political discourse in Cosita Rica / Carolina Acosta-Alzuru; title: The color of mobs : racial politics, ethnopopulism, and representation in the Chávez era / Luis Duno Gottberg; title: Taking possession of public discourse : women and the practice of political poetry in Venezuela / Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols; title: Christianity and politics in Venezuela's Bolivarian democracy : Catholics, Evangelicals, and political polarization / David Smilde and Coraly Pagan.