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Venezuela's Bolivarian democracy

Venezuela's Bolivarian democracy participation, politics, and culture under Chávez / [electronic resource] : David Smilde and Daniel Hellinger, editors. - Durham, NC : Duke University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xxii, 381 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Chávez Frías, Hugo.


Political participation--History.--Venezuela
Representative government and representation--History.--Venezuela
Democracy--Venezuela.


Venezuela--Politics and government--1999-


Electronic books.

JL3881 / .V463 2011

320.987