Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship contains original essays by a diverse group of leading and emerging scholars from North America, Europe, and Latin America. The book speaks to wide-ranging debates on democracy, the left, and citizenship in Latin America. What were the effects of a decade and a half of left and center-left governments? The central purpose of this book is to evaluate both the positive and negative effects of the Left turn on state-society relations and inclusion.
Promises of social inclusion and the expansion of citizenship rights were paramount to the center-left discourses upon the factions’ arrival to power in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This book is a first step in understanding to what extent these initial promises were or were not fulfilled, and why. In analyzing these issues, the authors demonstrate that these years yield both signs of progress in some areas and the deepening of historical problems in others. The contributors to this book reveal variation among and within countries, and across policy and issue areas such as democratic institution reforms, human rights, minorities’ rights, environmental questions, and violence. This focus on issues rather than countries distinguishes the book from other recent volumes on the left in Latin America, and the book will speak to a broad and multi-dimensional audience, both inside and outside the academic world.
Contributors: Manuel Balán, Françoise Montambeault, Philip Oxhorn, Maxwell A. Cameron, Kenneth M. Roberts, Nathalia Sandoval-Rojas, Daniel M. Brinks, Benjamin Goldfrank, Roberta Rice, Elizabeth Jelin, Celina Van Dembroucke, Nora Nagels, Merike Blofield, Jordi Díez, Eve Bratman, Gabriel Kessler, Olivier Dabène, Jared Abbott, Steve Levitsky
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgement
List of Abbreviations
Introduction – What’s Left? by Manuel Balán and Françoise Montambeault
Part 1. Theoretical Questions
1. Widening and Deepening Citizenship from the Left? A Relational and Issue-Based Comparative Approach by Françoise Montambeault, Manuel Balán, and Philip Oxhorn
2. Liberalism and its Competitors in Latin America: Oligarchy, Populism, and the Left by
Maxwell A. Cameron
Part 2. Deepening Democratic Institutions
3. Parties and Party Systems in Latin America’s Left Turn by Kenneth M. Roberts
4. Entrenching Social Constitutionalism? Contributions and Challenges of the Left in Latin American Constitutionalism by Nathalia Sandoval Rojas and Daniel M. Brinks
5. Participatory Democracy in Latin America? Limited Legacies of the Left Turn by Benjamin Goldfrank
6. Indigenous Autonomies under the New Left in the Andes by Roberta Rice
Part 3. The Multiple Struggles for Inclusive Citizenship Rights
7. Human Rights and Memory Politics under Shifting Political Orientations by Elizabeth Jelin and Celina Van Dembroucke
8. Gender and Conditional Cash Transfers: Shifting the Citizenship Regime in Bolivia? by Nora Nagels
9. Improvements at the Limits of Society: The Left Tide and Domestic Workers’ Rights by Merike Blofield
10. The Record of Latin America’s Left on Sexual Citizenship by Jordi Díez
11. Sustainable Development Reconsidered: The Left Turn’s Legacies in the Amazon by
Eve Bratman
12. Changes in Urban Crime: From the “Neoliberal Period” to “the Left Turn” by Gabriel Kessler
Part 4. Conclusions
13. Uses and Misuses of the “Left” category in Latin America by Olivier Dabène
14. The Left Turn and Citizenship: How Much Has Changed? by Jared Abbott and Steven Levitsky
Appendices
Circa l’autore
Françoise Montambeault is an associate professor of political science at the University of Montreal.Altri ebook dello stesso autore / Editore
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