TY  - BOOK
N2  - "Can Latin America's "new left" stimulate economic development, enhance social equity, and deepen democracy in spite of the economic and political constraints it faces? This is the first book to systematically examine the policies and performance of the left-wing governments that have risen to power in Latin America during the last decade. Featuring thorough studies of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela by renowned experts, the volume argues that moderate leftist governments have attained greater, more sustainable success than their more radical, contestatory counterparts. Moderate governments in Brazil and Chile have generated solid economic growth, reduced poverty and inequality, and created innovative and fiscally sound social programs, while respecting the fundamental principles of market economics and liberal democracy. By contrast, more radical governments, exemplified by Hugo Chv̀ez in Venezuela, have expanded state intervention and popular participation and attained some short-term economic and social successes, but they have provoked severe conflict, undermined democracy, and failed to ensure the economic and institutional sustainability of their policy projects"--Provided by publisher.
AB  - "Can Latin America's "new left" stimulate economic development, enhance social equity, and deepen democracy in spite of the economic and political constraints it faces? This is the first book to systematically examine the policies and performance of the left-wing governments that have risen to power in Latin America during the last decade. Featuring thorough studies of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela by renowned experts, the volume argues that moderate leftist governments have attained greater, more sustainable success than their more radical, contestatory counterparts. Moderate governments in Brazil and Chile have generated solid economic growth, reduced poverty and inequality, and created innovative and fiscally sound social programs, while respecting the fundamental principles of market economics and liberal democracy. By contrast, more radical governments, exemplified by Hugo Chv̀ez in Venezuela, have expanded state intervention and popular participation and attained some short-term economic and social successes, but they have provoked severe conflict, undermined democracy, and failed to ensure the economic and institutional sustainability of their policy projects"--Provided by publisher.
T1  - Leftist governments in Latin America :successes and shortcomings /
DA  - 2010.
CY  - Cambridge ;
CY  - New York :
AU  - Weyland, Kurt Gerhard.
AU  - Madrid, Raúl L.
AU  - Hunter, Wendy.
CN  - JL960
CN  - JL960
PB  - Cambridge University Press,
PP  - Cambridge ;
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2010.
ID  - 347932
KW  - Socialism
SN  - 9780521130332 (pbk.)
SN  - 0521130336 (pbk.)
SN  - 9780521762205
SN  - 0521762200
TI  - Leftist governments in Latin America :successes and shortcomings /
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1005/2010000987-b.html
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1005/2010000987-t.html
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1006/2010000987-d.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1005/2010000987-b.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1005/2010000987-t.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1006/2010000987-d.html
ER  -