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  • 4 - “Bolivarian” and Left-Wing Populism in Latin America

  • Kurt Weyland, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book:
    Democracy's Resilience to Populism's Threat
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    25 January 2024, pp 117-158

  • Summary

    This chapter documents the restrictive conditions under which leftwing, “Bolivarian” populism managed to destroy democracy in Latin America. Only Hugo Chavez of Venezuela (1999–2013), Evo Morales of Bolivia (2006–2019), and Rafael Correa of Ecuador (2007–2017) accomplished this feat because they benefited from the high instability plaguing their countries’ presidential systems and, at the same time, from the enormous hydrocarbon revenues provided by the global commodities boom. By distributing massive benefits to ample population sectors, they won overwhelming political support, which they leveraged for dismantling the remaining, already battered checks and balances. By contrast, presidents who did not benefit from such a huge windfall or who governed in countries not suffering from high institutional instability did not manage to still their power hunger and asphyxiate democracy. Instead, some of these leftwing populists suffered irregular evictions from office, whereas others managed to serve out their terms, but failed to perpetuate themselves in power and strangle democracy.

  • Local Economic Voting and the Agricultural Boom in Argentina, 2007–2015

  • Jorge Mangonnet, María Victoria Murillo, Julia María Rubio
  • Journal:
    Latin American Politics and Society / Volume 60 / Issue 3 / August 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 May 2018, pp. 27-53

  • This article investigates the effect of local economic conditions on voting behavior by focusing on the export-oriented agricultural areas of Argentina during the commodities boom. It assesses the marginal effect of export wealth on electoral outcomes by studying the impact of soybean production, the main Argentine export product during this period. The combination of rising agricultural prices and a salient national tax on exports allows us to evaluate how wealth and tax policy shape local electoral behavior. This study relies on a spatial econometric analysis of the vote across Argentine departments for the 2007–15 period, along with qualitative evidence from interviews and a descriptive analysis of government appointments.