Carlos De La Torre
Biographic Data
| ID | 128430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlos De La Torre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlos |
| FAMILY NAME | De La Torre |
| SIGNATURE | DE LA TORRE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3477-8884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 390 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Symposium: Decoding Trumpism through a Populist Lens
Challenges of Retained Thoracoamniotic Shunts in the Neonatal Period: A Case Report
Background: Thoracoamniotic shunting (TAS) is a well-established fetal therapy for severe pleural effusions complicated by hydrops. Although survival in selected cases exceeds 60%, retained or migrated shunts can pose significant postnatal management challenges. Case presentation: We report a neonate with intrathoracic migration of a Somatex ® shunt placed at 26 weeks' gestation for hydropic pleural effusion. Although initially asymptomatic, the …
Populism and Fascism
The elections of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, as well as the strengthening of the radical right globally, brought back debates of the similarities and differences between populism and fascism. This volume argues that fascism and populism are similar in so far that they constructed the people as one; understood leadership as embodiment; and performed politics of the extraordinary. They are different because there is a consensus that fascism oc…
Seven Essays on Populism, written by Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia
Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia, Seven Essays on Populism, Cambridge: Polity Press 2021Seven Essays on Populism is an ambitious, interesting, and difficult to read book that transforms critical theory into political theology. The volume aims to follow “the irreverent creativity and heterodoxy of Latin American critical thinking ... through the humble evocation of José Carlos Mariategui’s illuminating Seven Interpretative Essays of Peruvian Rea…
Populismo: Estrategias conceptuales y debates
Este artículo constituye una revisión del concepto de populismo más allá de tratar de buscar la precisión y la definición única. Pues a lo largo del manuscrito se sostiene que la mejor manera de abordarlo será centrarse en lo que hacen los populistas. Así, se presenta al populismo como una lógica que divide en partes antagónicas a la sociedad y se desgranan los elementos que existen bajo aquellas lógicas populistas como la creación de enemigos, l…
The Complex Constructions of the People and the Leader in Populism
The Pushback Against Populism: Why Ecuador's Referendums Backfired
Since taking office in May 2017, Ecuadorean president Lenín Moreno has made headline-grabbing efforts to reverse the transformations wrought by his populist predecessor, Rafael Correa (2007–17). Initially elected as Correa's handpicked successor and the candidate of his Alianza PAIS movement, Moreno departed from the course set by Correa on matters ranging from the abolition of term limits to the launch of anticorruption investigations. Yet illib…
Is left populism the radical democratic answer
This commentary challenges views of left populism as the normative desirable path for radical democracy. It disentangles populist diagnosis of the failures and deficits of democracy from its solutions. It argues that the logic of populism so well analyzed by Laclau leads to the appropriation of people’s power by a clique of politicians and ultimately by a leader
Do We Need a Minimum Definition of Populism? An Appraisal of Mudde’s Conceptualization
This contribution discusses the advantages and disadvantages of Cas Mudde’s minimalist definition to study populism. It argues that his proposal might facilitate consensus among scholars, yet his conceptualization is an obstacle to grasp the complexity of populism in its diverse manifestations over space and time. Moreover, some underlying normative assumptions limit the reach of his concept to small rightwing populist European parties at the fri…
Routledge Handbook of Global Populism
Antología del pensamiento crítico ecuatoriano contemporáneo
Aunque la mayoría de textos reflexiona sobre el siglo XX, la historiografía ecuatoriana no está representada en esta antología. Existe un sesgo hacia trabajos más afines a las ciencias sociales y menos a las humanidades. Esta limitación surge fundamentalmente por el carácter propio de una antología que no permite seleccionar textos demasiado extensos y que además puedan leerse como ensayos por sí solos. El libro se ordena en cinco campos: la rela…
Populism Revived: Donald Trump and the Latin American Leftist Populists
The twenty-first century could well become known as the populist century. No longer confined to Latin America or to the margins of European politics, populism has spread to Africa, Asia, and, with Donald Trump's election, to the cradle of liberal democracy. Even though it is uncertain what impact Trump's populism will have on American democracy, it is worth learning from Latin America, where populists have been in power from the 1930s and 1940s t…
Ecuador After Correa
Populist successions are uncertain. Populists, like democrats, see voting as the only legitimate path to power. Yet populist leaders position themselves as liberators of the nation and the people, and hence above such constraints as term limits or the alternation of power. This article analyzes how Lenín Moreno, the handpicked successor of Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa, unexpectedly broke with his mentor, took over his party, worked to depol…
Populism in Power: Between Inclusion and Autocracy
The Latin American historical experience with populist regimes as well as the theoretical reflections produced by Latin Americanists are particularly relevant not just for determining the nature of a very contested political concept but also for understanding the logic of populism in government and the threats it poses to liberal democratic regimes. Populism in government or the attempt at stabilizing a populist regime is no novelty for Latin Ame…
Populism in Latin America
Since the 1930s and 1940s until the present, populist leaders have dominated Latin America’s political landscapes. This chapter explains the commonalities and differences between the different subtypes of Latin American populism—classical, neoliberal, and radical. It examines why these different manifestations of populism emerged, and their democratizing and inclusionary promises while seeking power. Then it analyzes their impact on democracy aft…
Populist Citizenship in the Bolivarian Revolutions
This article analyzes the contours of populist citizenship as an alternative to neoliberal models of citizenship as consumption, and to liberal models that protect pluralism. It compares how political, socioeconomic, civil, collective, gender, and GLBT rights were imagined and implemented in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. It explains why despite the expansion of some rights, populists’ use of discriminatory legalism to regulate the public spher…
Hugo Chávez and the diffusion of Bolivarianism
This article analyses the mechanisms of influence, learning, and emulation used by Hugo Chávez to diffuse Bolivarianism across Latin America and the world. Different from autocratic types of diffusion that are instrumental and motivated by self-preservation, Chávez promoted what he depicted as a superior model of democracy and a populist strategy of political transformation using constitution making, heavy state intervention in the economy, and a…
Trump's populism: Lessons from Latin America
This paper compares left-wing Latin American populism with Donald Trump. Despite their different social bases and economic policies, they use a similar logic to construct politics as an antagonistic struggle between two camps. Left-wing and right-wing populists aim to rupture existing political institutions to give power to the people, yet they differ in how they construct this category. Whereas Trump used ethnic criteria to differentiate the peo…
Populism and the politics of the extraordinary in Latin America
Building on past and current experiences of populism in Latin America, this article makes four arguments. First, whereas populist movements seeking power promise to democratize society by challenging the legitimacy of exclusionary institutions, populist governments often include the excluded at the cost of disfiguring democracy. Second, during populist events the meanings of the ambiguous term 'the people' are disputed. When social movements are …
Populist polarization and the slow death of democracy in Ecuador
This article analyses how the interactions between a strong populist government in Ecuador and a weak, divided, and inefficient internal opposition in a context of weak liberal institutions could lead to what Guillermo O'Donnell termed "the slow death of democracy". Rafael Correa was elected with a substantive project of democratization understood as economic redistribution and social justice. His administration got rid of neoliberal policies and…
As ruas como "verdadeira" democracia? A experiência Sul-Americana
Building on the existing literature this paper analyzes how – at the turn of the century and into the 21st century – activists in Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia constructed narratives that focused on “the people in action”. Advocates of the insurrections framed myths of the pure and oppressed people revolting against the tyranny of economic and political elites. Elites responded by differentiating the authentic people from the mob. Indigenous and…
The People, Democracy, and Authoritarianism in Rafael Correa's Ecuador
El tecnopopulismo de Rafael Correa: Es compatible el carisma con la tecnocracia
Este artículo sigue las sugerencias de Weber de estudiar cómo diferentes tipos de dominación se combinan en experiencias históricas concretas. Se analizan las sinergias y tensiones entre el liderazgo carismático de Rafael Correa y criterios tecnocráticos. A diferencia de líderes neopopulistas que encargaron sus políticas económicas a expertos neoliberales, Correa combina en su persona al experto con el político carismático. En su oratoria y en su…
In the Name of the People: Democratization, Popular Organizations, and Populism in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador
The regimes of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa undermine contestation while simultaneously increasing the material inclusion of the poor and the excluded. These regimes that are usually lumped together show distinct patterns in fostering participation. Whereas in Ecuador participation is reduced to voting in elections, participatory institutions were created in Venezuela and Bolivia. And whereas mobilization in Bolivia comes mostly fr…
Latin America’s Authoritarian Drift: Technocratic Populism in Ecuador
Latin America's Authoritarian Drift:Technocratic Populism in Ecuador Carlos de la Torre (bio) When Rafael Correa won his third presidential election with a commanding 57 percent of the vote on 17 February 2013, Ecuador went from being a country that seemingly could not keep a chief executive in office—there had been no fewer than seven of them during the decade before Correa's first win in 2006—to being one with a stable president. Correa speaks …
Latin America’s Authoritarian Drift: Technocratic Populism in Ecuador
Latin America's Authoritarian Drift:Technocratic Populism in Ecuador Carlos de la Torre (bio) When Rafael Correa won his third presidential election with a commanding 57 percent of the vote on 17 February 2013, Ecuador went from being a country that seemingly could not keep a chief executive in office—there had been no fewer than seven of them during the decade before Correa's first win in 2006—to being one with a stable president. Correa speaks …
Populist polarization and the slow death of democracy in Ecuador
This article analyses how the interactions between a strong populist government in Ecuador and a weak, divided, and inefficient internal opposition in a context of weak liberal institutions could lead to what Guillermo O'Donnell termed "the slow death of democracy". Rafael Correa was elected with a substantive project of democratization understood as economic redistribution and social justice. His administration got rid of neoliberal policies and…
Do We Need a Minimum Definition of Populism? An Appraisal of Mudde’s Conceptualization
This contribution discusses the advantages and disadvantages of Cas Mudde’s minimalist definition to study populism. It argues that his proposal might facilitate consensus among scholars, yet his conceptualization is an obstacle to grasp the complexity of populism in its diverse manifestations over space and time. Moreover, some underlying normative assumptions limit the reach of his concept to small rightwing populist European parties at the fri…
The Permanent Campaign of Rafael Correa: Making Ecuador's Plebiscitary Presidency
Analysts developed the notion of the permanent campaign to describe how presidents and prime ministers employ political marketing techniques in their quest to mobilize public support. To date, most scholarly studies of the phenomenon have focused on its features and consequences in advanced democracies. This study expands the analysis of the permanent campaign by examining its relationship to the rise of an extreme version of the plebiscitary pre…
Hugo Chávez and the diffusion of Bolivarianism
This article analyses the mechanisms of influence, learning, and emulation used by Hugo Chávez to diffuse Bolivarianism across Latin America and the world. Different from autocratic types of diffusion that are instrumental and motivated by self-preservation, Chávez promoted what he depicted as a superior model of democracy and a populist strategy of political transformation using constitution making, heavy state intervention in the economy, and a…
In the Name of the People: Democratization, Popular Organizations, and Populism in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador
The regimes of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa undermine contestation while simultaneously increasing the material inclusion of the poor and the excluded. These regimes that are usually lumped together show distinct patterns in fostering participation. Whereas in Ecuador participation is reduced to voting in elections, participatory institutions were created in Venezuela and Bolivia. And whereas mobilization in Bolivia comes mostly fr…
The Resurgence of Radical Populism in Latin America
Populism and the politics of the extraordinary in Latin America
Building on past and current experiences of populism in Latin America, this article makes four arguments. First, whereas populist movements seeking power promise to democratize society by challenging the legitimacy of exclusionary institutions, populist governments often include the excluded at the cost of disfiguring democracy. Second, during populist events the meanings of the ambiguous term 'the people' are disputed. When social movements are …
Populist Seduction in Latin America: The Ecuadorian Experience
Is Latin America experiencing a resurgence of leftwing governments, or are we seeing a rebirth of national-radical populism? Are the governments of Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa becoming institutionalized as these leaders claim novel models of participatory and direct democracy? Or are they reenacting older traditions that have favored plebiscitary acclamation and clientelist distribution of resources to loyal followers? Are we seei…
Ecuador After Correa
Populist successions are uncertain. Populists, like democrats, see voting as the only legitimate path to power. Yet populist leaders position themselves as liberators of the nation and the people, and hence above such constraints as term limits or the alternation of power. This article analyzes how Lenín Moreno, the handpicked successor of Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa, unexpectedly broke with his mentor, took over his party, worked to depol…
Everyday forms of racism in contemporary Ecuador: The experiences of middle-class Indians
This article studies anti-Indian forms of racial discrimination in present day Ecuador. Drawing on thirty eight in-depth interviews with middle-class Indians, this exploratory research analyses the different mechanisms of racial discrimination and the responses to it in a context of transition from a paternalistic system of racial domination to a possible democratization of racial and ethnic relations. The following dimensions of discrimination a…
Populism and Democracy: Political Discourses and Cultures in Contemporary Ecuador
In light of the ongoing resilience of populism in Ecuadorian politics, it should come as no surprise that both political elites and social scientists there have long debated the relationship between populism and democracy (Burbano and de la Torre, 1989; Paz y Mifio, 1992). Modernizing elites have argued that populism's rhetoric and style of political mobilization pose dangers to democratic institutions. They have constructed populist subjects as …
The Hybrid Campaign: Tradition and Modernity in Ecuador's 2006 Presidential Election
The 2006 presidential election in Ecuador offers an important example of how traditional, modern, and even postmodern modes of electioneering are combined in contemporary campaigns in Latin America. In his successful race against billionaire candidate Alvaro Noboa, Rafael Correa crafted a hybrid campaign in a double sense. First, he blended the country's classic populist discourse with forward-looking appeals for change. Second, Correa's organiza…
The People, Democracy, and Authoritarianism in Rafael Correa's Ecuador
Racial Discrimination and Citizenship in Ecuador's Educational System
This article challenges the common assumption that the Ecuadorian educational system produces homogeneous mestizo national subjects. Educational institutions are racially segregated, produce differentiated racial and ethnic groups and allow for little social mobility. The article analyzes the ambivalent ways in which whiteness is taught in the schools of the elite, and how the middle classes prefer private religious or military schools where disc…
The Pushback Against Populism: Why Ecuador's Referendums Backfired
Since taking office in May 2017, Ecuadorean president Lenín Moreno has made headline-grabbing efforts to reverse the transformations wrought by his populist predecessor, Rafael Correa (2007–17). Initially elected as Correa's handpicked successor and the candidate of his Alianza PAIS movement, Moreno departed from the course set by Correa on matters ranging from the abolition of term limits to the launch of anticorruption investigations. Yet illib…
The Complex Constructions of the People and the Leader in Populism
Populism in Power: Between Inclusion and Autocracy
The Latin American historical experience with populist regimes as well as the theoretical reflections produced by Latin Americanists are particularly relevant not just for determining the nature of a very contested political concept but also for understanding the logic of populism in government and the threats it poses to liberal democratic regimes. Populism in government or the attempt at stabilizing a populist regime is no novelty for Latin Ame…
The People, Populism, and The Leader's Semi-Embodied Power
This paper analyzes the ambiguous meanings of the concepts of "the people" and populism. It illustrates how these concepts oscillate between poles: whole and part, active and passive, threat and promise. It analyzes debates about who are the people, who speaks on their behalf, and what are their relations with democratic ideals. It explains how populism can be a conceived as a promise of democratic redemption, and simultaneously as a threat where…
Populism Revived: Donald Trump and the Latin American Leftist Populists
The twenty-first century could well become known as the populist century. No longer confined to Latin America or to the margins of European politics, populism has spread to Africa, Asia, and, with Donald Trump's election, to the cradle of liberal democracy. Even though it is uncertain what impact Trump's populism will have on American democracy, it is worth learning from Latin America, where populists have been in power from the 1930s and 1940s t…
Trump's populism: Lessons from Latin America
This paper compares left-wing Latin American populism with Donald Trump. Despite their different social bases and economic policies, they use a similar logic to construct politics as an antagonistic struggle between two camps. Left-wing and right-wing populists aim to rupture existing political institutions to give power to the people, yet they differ in how they construct this category. Whereas Trump used ethnic criteria to differentiate the peo…
Populist Redemption and the Unfinished Democratization of Latin America
Racism in Education and the Construction of Citizenship in Ecuador
L'A. se donne pour mission d'analyser les formes de racisme dans le systeme d'education et la construction de la citoyennete en Equateur, et ce dans les haciendas. Il sera interresssant pour l'auteur d'examiner les relations ethniques entre les indiens d'Equateur et les autres ethnies, notamment les blanco (blancs) et les mestizo (metis), dans ces proprietes foncieres reformees en 1960
Neopopulism in Contemporary Ecuador: The Case of Bucaram's Use of the Mass Media
Masas, pueblo y democracia: Un balance crítico de los debates sobre el nuevo populismo
Durante las ultimas decadas se ha dado un verdadero renacer de los estudios sobre el populismo. Los trabajos recientes se diferencian de los analisis del llamado populismo clasico porque en lugar de estudiarse al populismo como un regimen ligado a un tipo particular de politicas macroeconomicas, se lo analiza como un estilo o estrategia politica (Conniff 1999; Knight 1998; Weyland 1996, 2001; Roberts 1995). El objetivo de este trabajo es discutir…
Velasco Ibarra and 'La Revolución Gloriosa: The Social Production of a Populist Leader in Ecuador in the 1940s
This article is a study of the emergence of a populist leader. By combining an analysis of the social creation of the populist leader José María Velasco Ibarra in 'La Revolución Gloriosa' (or the May Revolution), with a study of his discourse, this paper explains why Velasco Ibarra became the central political figure in Ecuador in the mid-1940s
Populism and Democracy: Political Discourses and Cultures in Contemporary Ecuador
In light of the ongoing resilience of populism in Ecuadorian politics, it should come as no surprise that both political elites and social scientists there have long debated the relationship between populism and democracy (Burbano and de la Torre, 1989; Paz y Mifio, 1992). Modernizing elites have argued that populism's rhetoric and style of political mobilization pose dangers to democratic institutions. They have constructed populist subjects as …
Populist Redemption and the Unfinished Democratization of Latin America
Neopopulism in Contemporary Ecuador: The Case of Bucaram's Use of the Mass Media
Everyday forms of racism in contemporary Ecuador: The experiences of middle-class Indians
This article studies anti-Indian forms of racial discrimination in present day Ecuador. Drawing on thirty eight in-depth interviews with middle-class Indians, this exploratory research analyses the different mechanisms of racial discrimination and the responses to it in a context of transition from a paternalistic system of racial domination to a possible democratization of racial and ethnic relations. The following dimensions of discrimination a…
Populist Seduction in Latin America: The Ecuadorian Experience
Is Latin America experiencing a resurgence of leftwing governments, or are we seeing a rebirth of national-radical populism? Are the governments of Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa becoming institutionalized as these leaders claim novel models of participatory and direct democracy? Or are they reenacting older traditions that have favored plebiscitary acclamation and clientelist distribution of resources to loyal followers? Are we seei…
Racism in Education and the Construction of Citizenship in Ecuador
L'A. se donne pour mission d'analyser les formes de racisme dans le systeme d'education et la construction de la citoyennete en Equateur, et ce dans les haciendas. Il sera interresssant pour l'auteur d'examiner les relations ethniques entre les indiens d'Equateur et les autres ethnies, notamment les blanco (blancs) et les mestizo (metis), dans ces proprietes foncieres reformees en 1960
Masas, pueblo y democracia: Un balance crítico de los debates sobre el nuevo populismo
Durante las ultimas decadas se ha dado un verdadero renacer de los estudios sobre el populismo. Los trabajos recientes se diferencian de los analisis del llamado populismo clasico porque en lugar de estudiarse al populismo como un regimen ligado a un tipo particular de politicas macroeconomicas, se lo analiza como un estilo o estrategia politica (Conniff 1999; Knight 1998; Weyland 1996, 2001; Roberts 1995). El objetivo de este trabajo es discutir…
Ethnic Movements and Citizenship in Ecuador
Cooperación Al Desarrollo Y Demandas Étnicas En Los Andes Ecuatorianos: Ensayos Sobre Indigenismo, Desarrollo Rural Y Neoindigenismo. By Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar. (Quito and Lleida, Ecuador: FLACSO and the Universitat de Lleida, 2001. Pp. 278.) Estado, Etnicidad Y Movimientos Sociales En América Latina: Ecuador En Crisis. Edited by Víctor Bretón and Francisco García. (Barcelona, Spain: Icaria, 2003.) Andean Entrepreneurs: Otavalo Merchants …
Os missionários combonianos e a criação de identidades negras no Equador
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The Resurgence of Radical Populism in Latin America
Por qué los populismos latinoamericanos se niegan a desaparecer
Este ensayo analiza las diferentes hipótesis que explican la obstinada persistencia del populismo como un fenómeno político. También, y a diferencia de quienes lo ven ya sea como uno de los mayores riesgos para la democracia, ya sea como su esencia misma, se analizan sus relaciones ambiguas con la democracia liberal. El populismo se inicia con la participación de las grandes masas en la política. Éstas no sólo demandaron ser escuchadas en momento…
The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Encompassing Amazonian rainforests, Andean peaks, coastal lowlands, and the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador’s geography is notably diverse. So too are its history, culture, and politics, all of which are examined from many perspectives in The Ecuador Reader. Spanning the years before the arrival of the Spanish in the early 1500s to the present, this rich anthology addresses colonialism, independence, the nation’s integration into the world economy, an…
The Permanent Campaign of Rafael Correa: Making Ecuador's Plebiscitary Presidency
Analysts developed the notion of the permanent campaign to describe how presidents and prime ministers employ political marketing techniques in their quest to mobilize public support. To date, most scholarly studies of the phenomenon have focused on its features and consequences in advanced democracies. This study expands the analysis of the permanent campaign by examining its relationship to the rise of an extreme version of the plebiscitary pre…
Medios, representación y calidad de la democracia en América Latina
Este artículo analiza los debates recientes sobre los medios y la política, y en particular el papel de los medios en la calidad de la democracia. Si bien perduran estudios basados en las nociones de los medios como instrumentos de lasclases dominantes, la mayoría de trabajos reseñados analizan a los medios como creadores culturales que tienen un papel importante en la formación de escenarios de representación política a los que los políticos tie…
The Hybrid Campaign: Tradition and Modernity in Ecuador's 2006 Presidential Election
The 2006 presidential election in Ecuador offers an important example of how traditional, modern, and even postmodern modes of electioneering are combined in contemporary campaigns in Latin America. In his successful race against billionaire candidate Alvaro Noboa, Rafael Correa crafted a hybrid campaign in a double sense. First, he blended the country's classic populist discourse with forward-looking appeals for change. Second, Correa's organiza…
Racial Discrimination and Citizenship in Ecuador's Educational System
This article challenges the common assumption that the Ecuadorian educational system produces homogeneous mestizo national subjects. Educational institutions are racially segregated, produce differentiated racial and ethnic groups and allow for little social mobility. The article analyzes the ambivalent ways in which whiteness is taught in the schools of the elite, and how the middle classes prefer private religious or military schools where disc…
Corporatism, Charisma, and Chaos: Ecuador’s Police Rebellion in Context
El tecnopopulismo de Rafael Correa: Es compatible el carisma con la tecnocracia
Este artículo sigue las sugerencias de Weber de estudiar cómo diferentes tipos de dominación se combinan en experiencias históricas concretas. Se analizan las sinergias y tensiones entre el liderazgo carismático de Rafael Correa y criterios tecnocráticos. A diferencia de líderes neopopulistas que encargaron sus políticas económicas a expertos neoliberales, Correa combina en su persona al experto con el político carismático. En su oratoria y en su…
In the Name of the People: Democratization, Popular Organizations, and Populism in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador
The regimes of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa undermine contestation while simultaneously increasing the material inclusion of the poor and the excluded. These regimes that are usually lumped together show distinct patterns in fostering participation. Whereas in Ecuador participation is reduced to voting in elections, participatory institutions were created in Venezuela and Bolivia. And whereas mobilization in Bolivia comes mostly fr…
Latin America’s Authoritarian Drift: Technocratic Populism in Ecuador
Latin America's Authoritarian Drift:Technocratic Populism in Ecuador Carlos de la Torre (bio) When Rafael Correa won his third presidential election with a commanding 57 percent of the vote on 17 February 2013, Ecuador went from being a country that seemingly could not keep a chief executive in office—there had been no fewer than seven of them during the decade before Correa's first win in 2006—to being one with a stable president. Correa speaks …
The People, Populism, and The Leader's Semi-Embodied Power
This paper analyzes the ambiguous meanings of the concepts of "the people" and populism. It illustrates how these concepts oscillate between poles: whole and part, active and passive, threat and promise. It analyzes debates about who are the people, who speaks on their behalf, and what are their relations with democratic ideals. It explains how populism can be a conceived as a promise of democratic redemption, and simultaneously as a threat where…
Veinte años de populismo y democracia
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Movimientos étnicos y cultura política en Ecuador
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Rituales racistas en las escuelas: La Letra Con Sangre Entra
La mayoría de educadores reproduce las jerarquías raciales en sus salones de clase. El paso de los indios por la escuela y el colegio dejan experiencias traumáticas
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