The Latin American Crisis and the New Authoritarian State

Manuel Larrabure

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000801736
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Global Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book provides a fresh interpretation of the rise and fall of Latin America's 'left turn', or movement towards more progressive economic or social policies. From a historical and comparative perspective, the book argues that Latin America is entering a new phase of authoritarian statism.

Based on over 10 years of research on Latin American political economy and social movements, including years of fieldwork in Chile, Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina, this book combines the stories of individuals and groups in particular situations with the macro-level political and economic trajectory of the region since the postwar period. The book draws on over 100 interviews with community activists, workers, union leaders, politicians, journalists, and NGOs, as well as archival work. In addition, the book uses up-to-date national and regional economic data, including both standard and heterodox development indicators. By engaging with key case studies including Argentina's recovered enterprises, Chile's student movement, Brazil's free transit movement, and Venezuela's popular economy, this book analyzes the complex relationship between "post-capitalist struggles" and the governance models of the "pink tide", the wave of left governments that began to sweep the region at the turn of the century.

This book will be of interest to researchers across politics, development, Latin American studies and social movement studies. The original data and analysis of the relationship between social movements and governments will also benefit policymakers and those working within the NGO sector.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Lists of figures
• List of tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Historical and Theoretical Considerations in the Study of the Left Turn and Its Decline
• 2 Post-capitalist Struggles and the Neostructuralist Bargain
• 3 Economic Aspects of the New Authoritarianism
• 4 Argentina’s Worker Recuperated Enterprises: Redefining the Peronist Class Bargain
• 5 Brazil’s June Uprisings and a New Left in Limbo
• 6 Penguins in la Moneda
• 7 Venezuela’s Democratic Road to Socialism with a Magical Twist
• 8 Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Appendix A: Current Account Balance (% of GDP)
• Appendix B: Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP)
• Appendix C: FDI (% of FDI)
• Appendix D: GDP Growth (Annual %)
• Appendix E: Central Government Debt (% of GDP)
• Index