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Venezuela's Bolivarian democracy : participation, politics, and culture under Chávez / David Smilde and Daniel Hellinger, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chávez Frías, Hugo.
- Democracy--Venezuela.
- Democracy.
- Representative government and representation--Venezuela--History.
- Representative government and representation.
- Political participation--Venezuela--History.
- Political participation.
- Venezuela--Politics and government--1999-.
- Venezuela.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (406 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Looking beyond Hugo Chávez and the national government, contributors examine forms of democracy involving ordinary Venezuelans: in communal councils, cultural activities, blogs, community media, and other forums.
- Contents:
- Defying the iron law of oligarchy I : how does "el pueblo" conceive of democracy? / Daniel Hellinger
- Participatory democracy in Venezuela : origins, ideas, and implementation / Margarita López Maya and Luis E. Lander
- Urban land committees : co-optation, autonomy, and protagonism / María Pilar García-Guadilla
- Catia sees you : community television, clientelism, and the state in the Chávez era / Naomi Schiller
- Radio Bemba in an age of electronic media : the dynamics of popular communication in Chávez's Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes
- "We are still rebels" : the challenge of popular history in Bolivarian Venezuela / Alejandro Velasco
- The misiones of the Chávez government / Kirk A. Hawkins, Guillermo Rosas, and Michael E. Johnson
- Defying the iron law of oligarchy II : debating democracy online in Venezuela / Daniel Hellinger
- Venezuela's telenovela : polarization and political discourse in Cosita Rica / Carolina Acosta-Alzuru
- The color of mobs : racial politics, ethnopopulism, and representation in the Chávez era / Luis Duno Gottberg
- Taking possession of public discourse : women and the practice of political poetry in Venezuela / Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols
- Christianity and politics in Venezuela's Bolivarian democracy : Catholics, Evangelicals, and political polarization / David Smilde and Coraly Pagan.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-367) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613252333
- 9781283252331
- 1283252333
- 9780822394310
- 0822394316
- OCLC:
- 755702270
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613252333
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