Latin America's pink tide : breakthroughs and shortcomings / edited by Steve Ellner ; foreword by Boaventura de Sousa Santos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellner, Steve, editor.

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, writer of foreword.

Series:

Latin American perspectives in the classroom

Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--Latin America--History.

Socialism.

Left-wing extremists--Latin America.

Left-wing extremists.

History.

Latin America--Politics and government--1980-.

Latin America.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 355 pages : chart ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]

Summary:

"This multidisciplinary book presents a balanced view of contemporary leftist and center-leftist Latin American governments. Drawing on the relationships among economic, social, and political factors, it explores the historically unprecedented duration of the Pink Tide phenomenon as well as the setbacks and conservative inroads of recent years"--Back cover

Contents:

Introduction : Latin America's pink tide governments : challenges, breakthroughs, and setbacks / Steve Ellner

Latin America's pink tide : the straitjacket of global capitalism / William I. Robinson

Has the pink tide cycle come to an end? Will it have a long-lasting impact? / Steve Ellner

Walking the "tightrope" of socialist governance : a strategic relational analysis of twenty-first-century socialism / Marcel Nelson

The limits of pragmatism : the rise and fall of the Brazilian Workers' Party (2002-2016) / Pedro Mendes Loureiro and Alfredo Saad-Filho

The Frente Amplio governments in Uruguay : policy strategies and results / Nicolás Bentancur and José Miguel Busquets

Kirchnerism in Latin America's anti-neoliberal cycle / Mabel Thwaites Rey and Jorge Orovitz Sanmartino

Class strategies in Chavista Venezuela : pragmatic and populist policies in a broader context / Steve Ellner

An opportunity squandered? Elites, social movements, and the Bolivian government of Evo Morales / Linda Farthing

Left populism, democracy, state building and the ephemeral counterhegemony of the citizens' revolution in Ecuador / Patrick Clark and Jacobo García

Neo-extractivism, class formations, and the pink tide : considerations on the Venezuelan case / Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández

The rise and fall of sandinista alliances as a means of sociopolitical change in Nicaragua / Héctor M. Cruz-Feliciano

The limits of change : El Salvador's FMLN in power / Hilary Goodfriend

The last surfer to hit the beach : mexico and the "pink tide" / John M. Ackerman

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781538125632

9781538125625

1538125625

1538125633

OCLC:

1100602042

Publisher Number:

99983538263