Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America : the promise of inclusive citizenship / edited by Manuel Balán, Françoise Montambeault.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balán, Manuel, editor.

Montambeault, Françoise, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--Latin America.

Citizenship.

Latin America--Politics and government--21st century.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 443 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2020.

Summary:

"'Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship' contains original essays by a diverse group of leading and emerging scholars from North America, Europe, and Latin America. The book speaks to wide-ranging debates on democracy, the left, and citizenship in Latin America. What were the effects of a decade and a half of left and center-left governments? The central purpose of this book is to evaluate both the positive and negative effects of the Left turn on state-society relations and inclusion. Promises of social inclusion and the expansion of citizenship rights were paramount to the center-left discourses upon the factions' arrival to power in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This book is a first step in understanding to what extent these initial promises were or were not fulfilled, and why. In analyzing these issues, the authors demonstrate that these years yield both signs of progress in some areas and the deepening of historical problems in others. The contributors to this book reveal variation among and within countries, and across policy and issue areas such as democratic institution reforms, human rights, minorities' rights, environmental questions, and violence. This focus on issues rather than countries distinguishes the book from other recent volumes on the left in Latin America, and the book will speak to a broad and multi-dimensional audience, both inside and outside the academic world." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Manuel Balán and Françoise Montambeault

Part 1: Theoretical questions

Widening and deepening citizenship from the Left? A relational and issue-based comparative approach / Françoise Montambeault, Manuel Balán, and Philip Oxhorn

Liberalism and its competitors in Latin America: Oligarchy, populism, and the Left / Maxwell A. Cameron

Part 2: Deepening democratic institutions

Parties and party systems in Latin America's Left Turn / Kenneth M. Roberts

Entrenching social constitutionalism? Contributions and challenges of the Left in Latin American constitutionalism / Nathalia Sandoval-Rojas and Daniel M. Brinks

Participatory democracy in Latin America? Limited legacies of the Left Turn / Benjamin Goldfrank

Indigenous autonomies under the new Left in the Andes / Roberta Rice

Part 3: The multiple struggles for inclusive citizenship rights

Human rights and memory politics under shifting political orientations / Elizabeth Jelin and Celina Van Dembroucke

Gender and conditional cash transfers: Shifting the citizenship regime in Bolivia? / Nora Nagels

Improvements at the limits of society: The Left Tide and domestic workers' rights / Merike Blofield

The record of Latin America's Left on sexual citizenship / Jordi Diez

Sustainable development reconsidered: The Left Turn's legacies in the Amazon / Eve Bratman

Change in urban crime: From the "Neoliberal Period" to the "Left Turn" / Gabriel Kessler

Part 4: Conclusions

Uses and misuses of the "Left" category in Latin America / Olivier Dabene

The Left Turn and citizenship: How much has changed? / Jared Abbott and Steven Levitsky.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780268106607

0268106606