FRIDE: THE "THIRD POPULIST
WAVE" OF LATIN AMERICA by SUSANNE GRATIUS: 02/12/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 02 December 2007 -
Madrid
- The
return of democracy in Latin America has not brought the end of populism. Indeed
populist politics seem to be experiencing a boom at the beginning of the 21st
century.
In contrast to other
parts of the World, Latin America has seen populism take centre stage not only
in the streets, but also in the halls of power.
Despite its
authoritarian tendencies, it coexists with a framework of formal democracy. And
thanks to its long history in government, and as a hybrid between democracy and
authoritarianism, it can almost be regarded as a political regime in its own
right, representing another stage in the process of democracy and state building
in the region.
From the perspective of
current political realities on the continent, this Working Paper analyses the
phenomenon of populism in Latin America and its relationship with democracy.
With this aim in mind,
the first chapter, which is more general in character, identifies the common
elements that define populism and its ambiguous relationship with democracy.
The document then
differentiates, in terms of public policies and political tendencies, between
the three populist “waves” or projects in Latin America and explores the
principal characteristics of the governments of Hugo Chávez, Rafael Correa, Evo
Morales and Néstor Kirchner.
The third chapter
compares these four cases and finds that the current move towards populism in
Latin America is a response to the crises of democracy and the state, which tend
to weaken the former and strengthen the latter.
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FRIDE
(Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior)
is a European think-tank based in Madrid that seeks to influence the policies
and actions of state and non-state actors in Europe and elsewhere, with regards
to peace and security, democratisation and human rights, and development and
humanitarian action, through applied research and informed debate based on the
values of justice and equality.
Bio author: Susanne Gratius
Senior Researcher, Peace, Security & Human Rights, Peace,
Security & Human Rights
PhD in Political
Science by the University of Hamburg.
Prior to joining FRIDE, Susanne Gratius worked as a Researcher at the Department
of the Americas at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
in Berlin and at the Iberoamerican Studies Institute (IIK) in Hamburg. Until
1999, she was Coordinator at the European-Latin American Relations Institute (IRELA)
in Madrid.
Her latest publications
include "Biregionalism in a Globalizing World: The Latin American
view" (with Mónica Rubiolo) and "EU-MERCOSUR Relations as a Learning
Experience for Biregionalism" in Wolf Grabendorff/Reimund Seidelmann
(eds.), Relations between the European Union and Latin America. Biregionalism in
a Changing Global System (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2005, pp. 73-139).
Expert in Latin America.
Labels: FRIDE,
Fundación
para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior,
Susanne
Gratius, Argentina
Bolivia Democracy
Ecuador Ideology
Latin
America & Caribbean Populism
Venezuela
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