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Continuity and change in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

Buxton, J (2019) Continuity and change in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. Third World Quarterly, 41 (8). pp. 1371-1387. ISSN 0143-6597

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Abstract

The aims and outcomes of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela are fiercely contested. A sympathetic view sees the possibility of Left revolutionary transformation as destabilised by aggressive US and domestic opposition actions. Detractors trace an authoritarian path from President Hugo Chávez’s election in 1998 to an inevitable socialist implosion under his successor Nicolás Maduro two decades later. This article emphasises continuities between the Bolivarian Fifth Republic and the Fourth Republic that the Revolution displaced. These account for the limitations of the transformative process. Historical institutionalism explains the reproduction of rentier practices and centralised state management and political organisation, culminating in cascading crisis across regime types.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: 16 Studies in Human Society; International Relations
Subjects: J Political Science > JL Political institutions (America except United States)
Divisions: Justice Studies (from Sep 19)
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
SWORD Depositor: A Symplectic
Date Deposited: 27 Jan 2025 12:28
Last Modified: 27 Jan 2025 12:28
DOI or ID number: 10.1080/01436597.2019.1653179
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25424
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