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- Dragon in the Tropics: Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Brookings Institution Press
- Series: The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
summary
This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropicsthe widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chávez (19992013) revamped Venezuela’s political economyexamines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez’s death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, to cope with the economic chaos inherited from previous radical populist policies. Corrales and Penfold argue that Maduro has had to struggle with the inherent contradictions of a large and heterogeneous social coalition, a declining oil sector, the strength of entrenched military interests, and fewer resources to appease international allies, which have strenghtened the autocratic features of an already consolidated hybrid regime. In examining the new political realities of Venezuela, the authors offer lessons on the dynamics of succession in hybrid regimes. This book is a must-read for scholars and analysts of Latin America.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Preface to the Second Edition
- pp. 12-17
- Conclusion: Hybrid Regimes and Regime Change
- pp. 204-210
- Back Cover
- p. 255
Additional Information
ISBN
9780815725947
Related ISBN(s)
9780815725930
MARC Record
OCLC
904131829
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2015-05-19
Language
English
Open Access
No