Latin America Since the Left TurnTulia G. Falleti, Emilio A. Parrado In the early twenty-first century, the citizens of many Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela, elected left-wing governments, explicitly rejecting and attempting to reverse the policies of neoliberal structural economic adjustment that had prevailed in the region during the 1990s. However, in other countries such as Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru continuity and even extension of the neoliberal agenda have been the norm. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Perspectives and Debates | 13 |
Fiscal Policy Income Redistribution and Poverty | 33 |
Social Investment in Latin America | 47 |
Thirty Years | 68 |
A Human Rights Approach | 88 |
Venezuela Between Two States | 113 |
Portrait of the Battle for Venezuela | 138 |
Agents of Neoliberalism? High Courts Legal Preferences | 214 |
Experimenting with Participation and Deliberation | 241 |
Innovation and Representation | 264 |
Antiimperial But Not Decolonial? Vasconcelos | 285 |
Decolonization and Plurinationality | 308 |
Entangled Aftermaths | 326 |
List of Contributors | 353 |
Acknowledgments | 375 |
Populism or Democracy? Reexamining the Role of the People | 165 |
Constitutional Changes and Judicial Power in Latin America | 189 |