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From Representative Democracy to Participatory Competitive Authoritarianism

Hugo Chávez and Venezuelan Politics

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ID6320693
AuthorsScott Mainwaring (0000-0003-2729-8049, University of Notre Dame, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume10
Issue4
Pages955-967
Publication date2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePerspectives on Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1537592712002629
OpenAlexW2066953818
LanguageEN
Citations received43
References cited36

The study of Latin American politics has always generated great new research questions, and within Latin America, no country's experience has generated more interesting questions than Venezuela since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998. Contemporary Venezuela raises fascinating questions about the collapse of a highly institutionalized party system and the erosion or breakdown of what had been the third-oldest democracy outside of the advanced industrial democracies. What accounts for these stunning developments? What can we learn from them? These issues go to the core of important developments in Latin American politics, and they are major issues for comparative political scientists beyond Latin America

Authoritarianism · Citizen journalism · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Latin Americans · Participatory democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Society in Latin America

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Citations per year3,58
Citation span2014 - 2026 (13)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 43

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