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Autocracy Rising
How autocracy flourished even as the economy failed in VenezuelaAn alarming number of countries that once were seemingly stable democracies have veered in recent years toward …
Dragon in the Tropics
Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez Fras has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regimean outcome …
Managing Volatile Capital Flows
During the past three years the frontier markets of sub-Saharan Africa have received growing amounts of portfolio capital flows, with heightened interest from foreign investors. …
Fixing Democracy
The study of institutions, a core concept in comparative politics, has produced many rich and influential theories on the economic and political effects of institutions, yet it has …
The Politics of LGBTQ Rights Expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean
The first section of this Element reviews the history of LGBTQ rights in the region since the 1960s. The second section reviews explanations for the expansion of rights and …
Dragon in the Tropics
With the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, demand has developed for an update to the 2010 title, Dragon in the Tropics - the widely-hailed comprehensive account of how …
Politics of LGBTQ Rights Expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean
The first section of this Element reviews the history of LGBTQ rights in the region since the 1960s. The second section reviews explanations for the expansion of rights and …
Presidents Without Parties
Most studies about the politics of economic reform focus on the struggles between the state and interest groups or opposition political parties. In this book Javier Corrales argues …
Autocracy Rising
How Nicols Maduro reinvented authoritarianism for the twenty-first centurVenezuela, which once enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the …
Politics of Sexuality in Latin America
The city of Buenos Aires has guaranteed all couples, regardless of gender, the right to register civil unions. Mexico City has approved the Cohabitation Law, which grants same-sex …
U.S.-Venezuela Relations since the 1990s
Oil makes up one-third of Venezuela's entire GDP, and the United States is far and away Venezuela's largest trading partner. Relations between Venezuela and the United States, …
The Revolution in Venezuela
Is Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution under Hugo Chávez truly revolutionary? Most books and articles tend to view the Chávez government in an either-or fashion. Some see the …