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Author: Gabriel Hetland
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231207706
ISBN 10: 0231207700
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 18 July 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A much-needed grassroots study of two ‘populist’ experiments in Venezuela and Bolivia. Gabriel Hetland is an astute observer of Latin American politics and this insightful, thoughtful book goes beyond the polemics and cliches to consider what democracy means to people whose opinions are rarely consulted. Indispensable. -- Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America</i> Hetland masterfully portrays the complexity of implementing democracy on the grassroots level in Latin America. -- Susan Eva Eckstein, author of <i>Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America</i> In this important book, Gabriel Hetland brings his illuminating fieldwork in Venezuela and Bolivia to make a compelling and original argument about how the nature of national political systems can shape the possibility for participatory action on the ground. -- Sujatha Fernandes, author of <i>Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela</i> Democracy on the Ground explores an interesting puzzle: why did political elites embrace participatory democracy in some Latin American cities and not others? This puzzle and Hetland’s findings are important to many debates about democracy, political elites, political parties, and participatory governance. His extensive fieldwork will be of great value to scholars and policy makers who want to better understand the political dynamics in this region -- Stephanie McNulty, author of <i>Democracy From Above? The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory Reforms</i>
Democracy on the Ground explores an interesting puzzle: why did political elites embrace participatory democracy in some Latin American cities and not others? This puzzle and Hetland's findings are important to many debates about democracy, political elites, political parties, and participatory governance. His extensive fieldwork will be of great value to scholars and policy makers who want to better understand the political dynamics in this region -- Stephanie McNulty, author of <i>Democracy From Above? The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory Reforms</i>
Author Information
Gabriel Hetland is associate professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
