The editorial office has received a number of edited volumes that will be of interest to our readership. To introduce these works, we occasionally list in this section the publication information and tables of contents entries. The six volumes selected for this issue examine populism, popular politics, and the left in Latin America, with an emphasis on recent work concerning Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.
Venezuela before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse. Edited by Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodríguez. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. Pp. vii, 468. $102.00 cloth.
Introduction
Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodríguez
Why Did Venezuelan Growth Collapse?
Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodríguez
Venezuela after a Century of Oil Exploitation
Osmel Manzano
Public Investment and Productivity Growth in the Venezuelan Manufacturing Industry
José Pineda and Francisco Rodríguez
The Incidence of Labor Market Reforms on Employment in the Venezuelan Manufacturing Sector, 1995–2001
Omar Bello and Adriana Bermúdez
Understanding Economic Growth in Venezuela, 1970–2005: The Real Effects of a Financial Collapse
Matías Braun
Much Higher Schooling, Much Lower Wages: Human Capital and Economic Collapse in Venezuela
Daniel Ortega and Lant Pritchett
Income Distribution and Redistribution in Venezuela
Samuel Freije
Competing for Jobs or Creating Jobs? The Impact of Immigration on Native-Born Unemployment in Venezuela, 1980–2003
Dan Levy and Dean Yang
Sleeping in the Bed One Makes: The Venezuelan Fiscal Policy Response to the Oil Boom
María Antonia Moreno and Cameron A. Shelton
Institutional Collapse: The Rise and Decline of Democratic Governance in Venezuela
Francisco Monaldi and Michael Penfold
The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in Venezuela
Jonathan Di John
Explaining Chavismo: The Unexpected Alliance of Radical Leftists and the Military in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez
Javier Corrales
Oil, Macro Volatility, and Crime in the Determination of Beliefs in Venezuela
Rafael Di Tella, Javier Donna, and Robert MacCulloch
Understanding the Collapse: Venezuela's Experience in Cross-National Perspective
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Reorganizing Popular Politics: Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America. Edited by Ruth Berins Collier and Samuel Handlin. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. Pp. x, 394. $65.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.
Part I. Interest Politics and the Popular Sectors
Popular Representation in the Interest Arena
Ruth Berins Collier and Samuel Handlin
Situating the Analysis: Analytic Approach, Cases, and Historical Context.
Ruth Berins Collier and Samuel Handlin
Logics of Collective Action, State Linkages, and Aggregate Traits: The UP-Hub versus the A-Net
Ruth Berins Collier and Samuel Handlin
Part II. Individual Participation in the Interest Arena
Direct Action and Associational Participation: Problem-Solving Repertoires of Individuals
Thad Dunning
Political Participation and Representational Distortion: The Nexus between Associationalism and Partisan Politics
Jason Seawright
Part III. The Popular-Sector Interest Regime
Targeting State and Society: Strategic Repertoires of Associations
Diana Kapiszewski
Three Forms of Scaling: Embeddedness, Nodal NGOs, and Flexible Fronts
Samuel Handlin and Diana Kapiszewski
Associational Linkages to Labor Unions and Political Parties
Candelaria Garay
Part IV. Conclusion
General Patterns and Emergent Differences
Samuel Handlin and Ruth Berins Collier
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Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Carlos de la Torre and Cynthia J. Arnson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xii, 398. $30.00 paper.
Introduction: The Evolution of Latin American Populism and the Debates over its Meaning
Carlos de la Torre and Cynthia J. Arnson
Parties and Populism in Latin America
Kenneth M. Roberts
Populism in Democratic Times: Populism, Representative Democracy, and the Debate on Democratic Deepening
Enrique Peruzzotti
What Do We Mean When We Talk About Populism?
Francisco Panizza
Populism and Social Policy in Latin America
Kurt Weyland
From the Peróns to the Kirchners: “Populism” in Argentine Politics
Hector E. Schamis
Populism, Neopopulism, and the Left in Brazil: From Getúlio to Lula
Leslie Bethell
Populism in Peru: From APRA to Ollanta Humala
Cynthia McClintock
Populism, Rentierism, and Socialism in the Twenty-First Century: The Case of Venezuela
Margarita López Maya and Alexandra Panzarelli
From the MNR to the MAS: Populism, Parties, The State, and Social Movements in Bolivia since 1952
John Crabtree
Rafael Correa and His Plebiscitary Citizens' Revolution
César Montúfar
Politicizing Insecurity: Uribe's Instrumental Use of Populism
Ana María Bejarano
Conclusion: The Meaning and Future of Latin American Populism
Cynthia J. Arnson and Carlos de la Torre
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Dragon in the Tropics: Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chávez. 2nd ed. By Carlos Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2015. Pp. 254. $27.00 paper.
Introduction: The Chávez Revolution in Perspective
Power Grabbing and the Rise of a Hybrid Regime in Venezuela, 1999–2009
Economic Policy and the Oil Honey Pot
Institutional Resource Curse: Seizing Political Control of PDVSA
Venezuela's New Foreign Policy: Soft-Balancing and Social-Power Diplomacy
Hybrid Regimes and Populism in Comparative Perspective
Dragon No More: The Politics of Succession—Linkages Abroad and Factional Struggles at Home
The Less Competitive More Authoritarian Regime
Conclusion: Hybrid Regimes and Regime Change
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Militantes, intelectuales y revolucionarios: ensayos sobre marxismo e izquierda en América Latina. Edited by Carlos Aguirre. Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente, 2013. Pp. 495. $26.00 paper.
Introduccíon
Carlos Aguirre
Part I. La izquierda latinoamericana, de la Comintern al socialismo del siglo XXI
La estrategia de clase contra clase y sus efectos en la proletarización del Partido Comunista Argentino, 1928–1935
Hernán Camarero
To Fight Soviet Agents in the Fatherland: Anti-Communism in Ayacucho's APRA, 1945–1948
Jaymie Patricia Heilman
El peronismo en los debates del Partido Comunista Argentino 1945–1953
Aníbal Jáuregui
Expanding our Conceptual Horizons: The Shift from an Old to a New Left in Latin America
Eric Zolov
La polémica Moreno-Santucho. La lucha armada y la ruptura del Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT)
Martín Mangiantini
Crisis hegemónica y movimientos antagonistas en América Latina. Una lectura gramsciana del cambio de época
Massimo Modonesi
Part II. Intelectuales marxistas: trayectorias y debates
Cartografía y perspectivas del marxismo latinoamericano
Omar Acha y Débora D'Antonio
Indigenous Nationalities in Ecuadorian Marxist Thought
Mark Becker
Comprometidos, orgánicos y expertos: intelectuales, marxismo y ciencias sociales en Argentina (1955–1973)
Pablo Ponza
Cultura política de izquierda y cultura impresa en el Perú contemporáneo (1968–1990): Alberto Flores Galindo y la formación de un intelectual public
Carlos Aguirre
La traducción como búsqueda de un marxismo latinoamericano. La trayectoria intelectual de José Aricó
Martín Cortés
Part III. El Marxismo y la vasinoesdel pasado latinoamericano
¿Qué historias serán las nuestras? Visiones del pasado y tradiciones nacionales en el Partido Comunista Argentino (ca. 1925–1950)
Alejandro Cattaruzza
Where Have All the Marxists Gone? Marxism and the Historiography of the Mexican Revolution
Luis F. Ruiz
La influencia del marxismo en la historiografía costarricense
Iván Molina Jiménez
Marxism and the Revision of Argentine History in the 1960s
Michael Goebel
Cuban Historiography in the 1960s: Revisionists, Revolutionaries, and the Nationalist Past
Kate Quinn
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Latin America in the Post-Chávez Era: The Security Threat to the United States. By Luis Fleischman. Sterling: Potomac Books, 2013. Pp. xxvi, 276. $29.95 cloth.
What Triggered the Revolutionary Forces in Latin America?
The Origins of the Chávez (Bolivarian) Revolution
The Continental Expansion of the Chávez Revolution
The Emergence of Indigenous and New Grassroots Movements in Latin America
Chávez's Dangerous Liaisons with Guerillas and Drug Cartels
The Bolivarian Revolution's Links to Iran and Hezbollah
The Roles of China and Russia
Regional and U.S. Reactions to the Bolivarian Revolution
Halting the Advance of the Bolivarian Revolution and Its Allies
