Michael Jimenez
Biographic Data
| ID | 836475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Jimenez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Jimenez |
| SIGNATURE | JIMENEZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8681-961X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Divided Opposition: Resource Asymmetry, Elections, and Protests in Electoral Autocracies
Despite calls for strategic unity against authoritarian incumbents, opposition parties often struggle to coordinate on a shared strategy. Why? This article builds on existing scholarship by introducing two additional drivers of opposition fragmentation. First, we argue that resource asymmetry (financial, organizational, leadership disparities) fosters distrust and competition rather than cooperation within the opposition. Second, we show how extr…
Recasting of the Latin American Right: Polarization and Conservative Reactions
This book analyzes the transformation of the political right in Latin America in response to the strengthening of left-wing parties and movements throughout the region. While Latin America's post-2000 left has been widely studied, little is known about right-wing political formations during and after that time. There is a paucity of research on recent phenomena associated with the reorganization of the Right: the polarization of Latin American el…
Contesting Autocracy: Repression and Opposition Coordination in Venezuela
Opposition coordination varies widely in electoral autocracies. Sometimes, opposition parties are highly coordinated and create alliances, present joint candidates or common policy platforms. Yet, at other times, oppositions choose to challenge incumbents individually. This article seeks to explain what drives opposition parties to coordinate in non-democratic regimes. It finds that opponents’ decision-making and strategy formation is influenced …
The Venezuelan Opposition’s Elusive Quest for Power: Persistent internal conflicts have prevented Chavismo’s detractors from organizing a serious political proposal to successfully contest power. Can …
El difícil camino hacia una democratización en Venezuela
Es posible una transición a la democracia en Venezuela? ¿Qué factores explican la durabilidad autoritaria?, y ¿qué estrategias opositoras podrían abonar un posible cambio de régimen político en el futuro? Este artículo aborda estos interrogantes. En primer lugar, se presentan antiguos y nuevos retos institucionales,políticos y socioeconómicos que condicionan y/o limitan un posible retorno de la democracia al país, incluyendo el diseño constitucio…
Venezuela: Autocratic Consolidation and Splintered Economic Liberalization
In 2020, Venezuela has gone through a process of autocratic consolidation. This consolidation has taken place amid substantial economic reforms that have allowed the government of Nicolás Maduro survive sustained international and domestic pressure. In this article, we analyze this process of autocratic consolidation. We explain how, by focusing on the establishment of an “interim-government” in 2019, the Venezuelan opposition has been unable to …
Technicians of Human Dignity: Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth
Hope in Action: Subversive Eschatology in the Theology of Edward Shillebeeckx and Johann Baptist Metz
Giorgio Agamben, et al. Democracy in What State
From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000
latin america has been actively engaged in global trade since a Genoese sailor with Portuguese cartographic and navigational skills and experience sailing to Africa on Spanish ships partially financed by Italian bankers reached what would be known as the ''New World.'' A German named the new continent America, after a Florentine who wrote in Latin. Although today many observers of the world economy are fascinated by a package of transformations k…
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.Arturo Escobar
La ofensiva empresarial: Industriales, políticos, y violencia en los años 40 en Colombia
El autor revela en este libro acontecimientos de mediados del siglo XX que apenas ahora se someten al rigor del analisis cientifico. El tema central del texto es el nacimiento de los poderosos intereses industriales colombianos que, desde entonces, dominan sectores claves del pais. Los empresarios textiles, en su afan de lograr posiciones privilegiadas dentro del establecimiento, recurrieron a muchas y variadas estrategias para desplazar a la vie…
The Llanos Frontier in Colombian History, 1830-1930
To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979
This book is a carefully argued study of peasants and labor during the Somoza regime, focusing on popular movements in the economically strategic department of Chinandega in western Nicaragua. Jeffrey Gould traces the evolution of group consciousness among peasants and workers as they moved away from extreme dependency on the patron to achieve an autonomous social and political ideology. In doing so, he makes important contributions to peasant st…
Violence in Colombia: The Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective
Violence in Colombia: The Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective
Mujeres incautas y sus hijos bastardos. Clase, género y resistencia campesina en la región cafetera de Cundinamarca (1900-1930) (Segunda parte)
HACIENDAS MAS GRANDES DE LA LADERA OCCIDENTAL:No es de extrañar que la resistencia de los campesinos pobres, y de los hombres en particular, haya ocurrido dentro del marco de la ideología de género elaborada por las clases altas e incorporada a la cultura campesina desde mediados del siglo XVI en adelante. Sin descontar el afecto y respeto mutuos entre los sexos, que seguramente existía entre los campesinos, los hombres campesinos aceptaron el mo…
"Mujeres incautas y sus hijos bastardos". Clase, género y resistencia campesina en la región cafetera de Cundinamarca. 1900-1930 (primera parte)
“El despertar de la agricultura es notable”, dijo Jesús del Corral a un grupo de grandes propietarios en Bogotá, el día lo. de mayo de 1914.y las tierras que le son propicias empiezan a valorizarse; vamos a quedar los colombianos situados en la calle real del mundo, o sea el Canal de Panamá, y necesitamos ponernos a la altura de nuestra situaciónRedoblemos, pues, las fuerzas, activemos el combate, y preparémonos luego para asistir al regio banque…
Traveling Far in Grandfather's Car: The Life Cycle of Central Colombian Coffee Estates. The Case of Viotá, Cundinamarca (1900-30)
Michael F. Jimenez, Traveling Far in Grandfather's Car: The Life Cycle of Central Colombian Coffee Estates. The Case of Viota, Cundinamarca (1900-30), The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 69, No. 2 (May, 1989), pp. 185-219
Citizens of the Kingdom”: Toward a Social History of Radical Christianity in Latin America
In 1981 liberation theologian José Porfirio Miranda argued that the parable of the weeds in Matthew was a clear guide for a radical politics in the modern world. According to the Mexican mathematician and union adviser, Jesus' explanation that “the farmer sowing seeds is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed the citizens of the Kingdom” was an injunction to achieve justice and freedom in the present. This earthly incarnation of th…
New Iberian World: A Documentary History of the Discovery and Settlement of Latin America to the Early 17th Century
From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000
latin america has been actively engaged in global trade since a Genoese sailor with Portuguese cartographic and navigational skills and experience sailing to Africa on Spanish ships partially financed by Italian bankers reached what would be known as the ''New World.'' A German named the new continent America, after a Florentine who wrote in Latin. Although today many observers of the world economy are fascinated by a package of transformations k…
Contesting Autocracy: Repression and Opposition Coordination in Venezuela
Opposition coordination varies widely in electoral autocracies. Sometimes, opposition parties are highly coordinated and create alliances, present joint candidates or common policy platforms. Yet, at other times, oppositions choose to challenge incumbents individually. This article seeks to explain what drives opposition parties to coordinate in non-democratic regimes. It finds that opponents’ decision-making and strategy formation is influenced …
Venezuela: Autocratic Consolidation and Splintered Economic Liberalization
In 2020, Venezuela has gone through a process of autocratic consolidation. This consolidation has taken place amid substantial economic reforms that have allowed the government of Nicolás Maduro survive sustained international and domestic pressure. In this article, we analyze this process of autocratic consolidation. We explain how, by focusing on the establishment of an “interim-government” in 2019, the Venezuelan opposition has been unable to …
El difícil camino hacia una democratización en Venezuela
Es posible una transición a la democracia en Venezuela? ¿Qué factores explican la durabilidad autoritaria?, y ¿qué estrategias opositoras podrían abonar un posible cambio de régimen político en el futuro? Este artículo aborda estos interrogantes. En primer lugar, se presentan antiguos y nuevos retos institucionales,políticos y socioeconómicos que condicionan y/o limitan un posible retorno de la democracia al país, incluyendo el diseño constitucio…
Traveling Far in Grandfather's Car: The Life Cycle of Central Colombian Coffee Estates. The Case of Viotá, Cundinamarca (1900-30)
Michael F. Jimenez, Traveling Far in Grandfather's Car: The Life Cycle of Central Colombian Coffee Estates. The Case of Viota, Cundinamarca (1900-30), The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 69, No. 2 (May, 1989), pp. 185-219
Citizens of the Kingdom”: Toward a Social History of Radical Christianity in Latin America
In 1981 liberation theologian José Porfirio Miranda argued that the parable of the weeds in Matthew was a clear guide for a radical politics in the modern world. According to the Mexican mathematician and union adviser, Jesus' explanation that “the farmer sowing seeds is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed the citizens of the Kingdom” was an injunction to achieve justice and freedom in the present. This earthly incarnation of th…
New Iberian World: A Documentary History of the Discovery and Settlement of Latin America to the Early 17th Century
Citizens of the Kingdom”: Toward a Social History of Radical Christianity in Latin America
In 1981 liberation theologian José Porfirio Miranda argued that the parable of the weeds in Matthew was a clear guide for a radical politics in the modern world. According to the Mexican mathematician and union adviser, Jesus' explanation that “the farmer sowing seeds is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed the citizens of the Kingdom” was an injunction to achieve justice and freedom in the present. This earthly incarnation of th…
"Mujeres incautas y sus hijos bastardos". Clase, género y resistencia campesina en la región cafetera de Cundinamarca. 1900-1930 (primera parte)
“El despertar de la agricultura es notable”, dijo Jesús del Corral a un grupo de grandes propietarios en Bogotá, el día lo. de mayo de 1914.y las tierras que le son propicias empiezan a valorizarse; vamos a quedar los colombianos situados en la calle real del mundo, o sea el Canal de Panamá, y necesitamos ponernos a la altura de nuestra situaciónRedoblemos, pues, las fuerzas, activemos el combate, y preparémonos luego para asistir al regio banque…
Traveling Far in Grandfather's Car: The Life Cycle of Central Colombian Coffee Estates. The Case of Viotá, Cundinamarca (1900-30)
Michael F. Jimenez, Traveling Far in Grandfather's Car: The Life Cycle of Central Colombian Coffee Estates. The Case of Viota, Cundinamarca (1900-30), The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 69, No. 2 (May, 1989), pp. 185-219
Mujeres incautas y sus hijos bastardos. Clase, género y resistencia campesina en la región cafetera de Cundinamarca (1900-1930) (Segunda parte)
HACIENDAS MAS GRANDES DE LA LADERA OCCIDENTAL:No es de extrañar que la resistencia de los campesinos pobres, y de los hombres en particular, haya ocurrido dentro del marco de la ideología de género elaborada por las clases altas e incorporada a la cultura campesina desde mediados del siglo XVI en adelante. Sin descontar el afecto y respeto mutuos entre los sexos, que seguramente existía entre los campesinos, los hombres campesinos aceptaron el mo…
Violence in Colombia: The Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective
Violence in Colombia: The Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective
To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979
This book is a carefully argued study of peasants and labor during the Somoza regime, focusing on popular movements in the economically strategic department of Chinandega in western Nicaragua. Jeffrey Gould traces the evolution of group consciousness among peasants and workers as they moved away from extreme dependency on the patron to achieve an autonomous social and political ideology. In doing so, he makes important contributions to peasant st…
The Llanos Frontier in Colombian History, 1830-1930
La ofensiva empresarial: Industriales, políticos, y violencia en los años 40 en Colombia
El autor revela en este libro acontecimientos de mediados del siglo XX que apenas ahora se someten al rigor del analisis cientifico. El tema central del texto es el nacimiento de los poderosos intereses industriales colombianos que, desde entonces, dominan sectores claves del pais. Los empresarios textiles, en su afan de lograr posiciones privilegiadas dentro del establecimiento, recurrieron a muchas y variadas estrategias para desplazar a la vie…
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.Arturo Escobar
From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000
latin america has been actively engaged in global trade since a Genoese sailor with Portuguese cartographic and navigational skills and experience sailing to Africa on Spanish ships partially financed by Italian bankers reached what would be known as the ''New World.'' A German named the new continent America, after a Florentine who wrote in Latin. Although today many observers of the world economy are fascinated by a package of transformations k…
Giorgio Agamben, et al. Democracy in What State
Hope in Action: Subversive Eschatology in the Theology of Edward Shillebeeckx and Johann Baptist Metz
Technicians of Human Dignity: Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth
Venezuela: Autocratic Consolidation and Splintered Economic Liberalization
In 2020, Venezuela has gone through a process of autocratic consolidation. This consolidation has taken place amid substantial economic reforms that have allowed the government of Nicolás Maduro survive sustained international and domestic pressure. In this article, we analyze this process of autocratic consolidation. We explain how, by focusing on the establishment of an “interim-government” in 2019, the Venezuelan opposition has been unable to …
The Venezuelan Opposition’s Elusive Quest for Power: Persistent internal conflicts have prevented Chavismo’s detractors from organizing a serious political proposal to successfully contest power. Can …
El difícil camino hacia una democratización en Venezuela
Es posible una transición a la democracia en Venezuela? ¿Qué factores explican la durabilidad autoritaria?, y ¿qué estrategias opositoras podrían abonar un posible cambio de régimen político en el futuro? Este artículo aborda estos interrogantes. En primer lugar, se presentan antiguos y nuevos retos institucionales,políticos y socioeconómicos que condicionan y/o limitan un posible retorno de la democracia al país, incluyendo el diseño constitucio…
Contesting Autocracy: Repression and Opposition Coordination in Venezuela
Opposition coordination varies widely in electoral autocracies. Sometimes, opposition parties are highly coordinated and create alliances, present joint candidates or common policy platforms. Yet, at other times, oppositions choose to challenge incumbents individually. This article seeks to explain what drives opposition parties to coordinate in non-democratic regimes. It finds that opponents’ decision-making and strategy formation is influenced …
Recasting of the Latin American Right: Polarization and Conservative Reactions
This book analyzes the transformation of the political right in Latin America in response to the strengthening of left-wing parties and movements throughout the region. While Latin America's post-2000 left has been widely studied, little is known about right-wing political formations during and after that time. There is a paucity of research on recent phenomena associated with the reorganization of the Right: the polarization of Latin American el…
Divided Opposition: Resource Asymmetry, Elections, and Protests in Electoral Autocracies
Despite calls for strategic unity against authoritarian incumbents, opposition parties often struggle to coordinate on a shared strategy. Why? This article builds on existing scholarship by introducing two additional drivers of opposition fragmentation. First, we argue that resource asymmetry (financial, organizational, leadership disparities) fosters distrust and competition rather than cooperation within the opposition. Second, we show how extr…
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