Populism and Democracy in Latin America. The Cases of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela (1994-2020)

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/desafios/a.11079

Article Sidebar

PDF (Español (España)) HTML (Español (España)) Lector Inteligente (Español (España)) ePub (Español (España))

Published: Jun 28, 2022
Issue: Vol. 34 No. 2 (2022): (July-December) Populism, Polarization and Democracy
Section Thematic Dossier


Keywords: Populism; democracy; Latin America; Argentina; Bolivia; Ecuador; Venezuela

Main Article Content

Authors

  Rodolfo Colalongo
Universidad Externado de Colombia
  José Manuel Rivas Otero
Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

Abstract

Populism has an ambivalent relationship with liberal democracy. Populist leaders often claim power for the people and consider themselves true democrats, while their detractors accuse them of being demagogues or authoritarians. In the academic literature these two ways of understanding populism coexist: as a threat to liberal democracy, or as an opportunity for political change that contributes to expanding democratic spaces. The aim of this article is to analyze how V-Dem’s main indices of democracy evolved in the Latin American countries that have had governments ascribed to the populist left. We seek to assess whether populism is a threat, an aid, or simply a theoretical matter without major practical implications for democracy.

How to Cite
Colalongo, R., & Rivas Otero, J. M. (2022). Populism and Democracy in Latin America. The Cases of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela (1994-2020) . Desafíos, 34(2), 1–37. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/desafios/a.11079
References

Abts, K., & Rummens, S. (2007). Populism versus democracy. Political Studies, 55(2), 405-424. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00657.x

Albertazzi, D., & McDonnell, D. (2007). Twenty-first century populism: The spectre of Western European democracy. Springer.

Altman, D., & Pérez-Liñán, A. (2002). Assessing the quality of democracy: Freedom, competitiveness and participation in eighteen Latin American countries. Democratization, 9(2), 85-100.

Anria, S. (2013). Social movements, party organization, and populism: insights from the Bolivian mas. Latin American Politics and Society, 55(3), 19-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-2456.2013.00201.x

Anselmi, M. (2018). Populism: An introduction. Routledge.

Arditi, B. (2003). Populism, or, politics at the edges of democracy. Contemporary Politics, 9(1), 17-31.

Arditi, B. (2004). Populism as a spectre of democracy: A response to Canovan. Political Studies, 52(1), 135-143.

Aytaç, S. E., & Öniş, Z. (2014). Varieties of Populism in a Changing Global Context: The Divergent paths of Erdoğan and Kirchnerismo. Comparative Politics, 47(1), 41-59. https://doi.org/10.5129/001041514813623137

Barreda, M. (2011). La calidad de la democracia: Un análisis comparado de América Latina. Política y Gobierno, 18(2), 265-295.

Bohigues García, A. (2021). Élites, radicalismo y democracia: Un estudio comparado sobre América Latina. Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas.

Canovan, M. (1999). Trust the people! Populism and the two faces of democracy. Political Studies, 47(1), 2-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467- 9248.00184

Canovan, M. (2004). Populism for political theorists? Journal of Political Ideologies, 9(3), 241-252.

Canovan, M. (2005). The people. Polity.

Cardoso, F. H., & Faletto, E. (1996). Dependencia y desarrollo en América Latina: Ensayo de interpretación sociológica. Siglo XXI.

Casullo, M. E. (2019). ¿Por qué funciona el populismo? El discurso que sabe construir explicaciones convincentes de un mundo en crisis. Siglo XXI .

Colalongo, R. (2020). El desarrollo teórico del populismo: Hacia una sistematización de lo escrito sobre el populismo como fenómeno político. Cultura Latinoamericana, 32(2), 40-67.

Conniff, M. L., Roberts, K., Basurto, J., Drake, P. W., & Ellner, S. (2012). Populism in Latin America. The University of Alabama Press.

Dahl, R. (1956). A short preface to democratic theory. Yale University Press.

Dahl, R. A. (2000). A democratic paradox? Political Science Quarterly, 115(1), 35-40.

Dahl, R. A. (2008). Polyarchy: Participation and opposition. Yale University Press.

De la Torre, C. (2010). Populist seduction in Latin America. Ohio University Press.

De la Torre, C. (2017). Populism in Latin America. En The Oxford handbook of populism (pp. 195-213). Oxford University Press.

De la Torre, C., & Arnson, C. (2013). Introduction: The evolution of Latin American populism and the debates over its meaning. En Latin American populism in the twenty-first century. Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Johns Hopkins University Press.

De la Torre, C., & Peruzzotti, E. (2008). El retorno del pueblo: Populismo y nuevas democracias en América Latina. Ministerio de Cultura del Ecuador.

Diamond, L., & Morlino, L. (2005). Assessing the quality of democracy. JHU Press.

Dornbusch, R., & Edwards, S. (2007). The macroeconomics of populism in Latin America. University of Chicago Press.

Freeden, M. (1998). Is nationalism a distinct ideology? Political studies, 46(4), 748-765.

Huber, R. A., & Ruth, S. P. (2017). Mind the gap! Populism, participation and representation in Europe. Swiss Political Science Review, 23(4), 462-484.

Huntington, S. P. (1993). The third wave: Democratization in the late twentieth century (vol. 4). University of Oklahoma Press.

Laclau, E. (2005). La razón populista. Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Laclau, E., & Mouffe, C. (1985). Hegemony and socialist theory: Toward a radical and plural democracy. Verso.

Levitsky, S., & Loxton, J. (2012). Populism and competitive authoritarianism. En Populism in Europe and the Americas Threat or Corrective for Democracy (pp. 160-181). Cambridge University Press.

Levitsky, S., & Murillo, M. (2008). Argentina: From Kirchner to Kirchner. Journal of Democracy , 19, 16-30. https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2008.0030

Levitsky, S., & Roberts, K. M. (2011). The resurgence of the Latin American left. JHU Press.

Macpherson, C. B. (1982). La democracia liberal y su época. Alianza.

Mény, Y., & Surel, Y. (2001). Democracies and the populist challenge. Springer.

Montero, J. R., Gunther, R., & Torcal, M. (1997). Democracy in Spain: Legitimacy, discontent, and disaffection. Studies in Comparative International Development, 32(3), 124-160.

Morlino, L. (2004a). ‘Good’and ‘bad’democracies: How to conduct research into the quality of democracy. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 20(1), 5-27.

Morlino, L. (2004b). What is a ‘good’ democracy? Democratization, 11(5), 10-32.

Morlino, L. (2009a). Democracias y democratizaciones. CIS.

Morlino, L. (2009b). Legitimacy and the quality of democracy. International Social Science Journal, 60(196), 211-222.

Mudde, C., & Rovira Kaltwasser, C. R. (2012). Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or corrective for democracy? Cambridge University Press.

Mudde, C., & Rovira Kaltwasser, C. (2017). Populism: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press.

Munck, G. L. (2016). What is democracy? A reconceptualization of the quality of democracy. Democratization, 23(1), 1-26.

O’donnell, G. A. (1994). Delegative democracy. Journal of Democracy, 5(1), 55-69.

O’donnell, G. (2004). The quality of democracy: Why the rule of law matters. Journal of Democracy, 15(4), 32-46.

Panizza, F. (2005). Introduction. En Populism and the mirror of democracy. Verso.

Peruzzotti, E. (2017). Conceptualizing Kirchnerismo. Partecipazione e Conflitto, 10(1), 47-64.

Plattner, M. F. (2010). Democracy’s past and future: Populism, pluralism, and liberal democracy. Journal of Democracy, 21(1), 81-92.

Postel, C. (2007). The populist vision. Oxford University Press.

Postero, N. (2010). The struggle to create a radical democracy in Bolivia. Latin American Research Review, 45, 59-78.

Roberts, K. M. (2006). Populism, political conflict, and grass-roots organization in Latin America. Comparative Politics, 38(2), 127-148. https:// doi.org/10.2307/20433986

Rovira Kaltwasser, C. (2012). The ambivalence of populism: Threat and corrective for democracy. Democratization, 19(2), 184-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2011.572619

Rovira Kaltwasser, C. (2015). Explaining the emergence of populism in Europe and the Americas. The promise and perils of populism: Global perspectives (pp. 189-227). University Press of Kentucky.

Rovira Kaltwasser, C. (2018). How to define populism? En Populism and the Crisis of Democracy: Volume 1: Concepts and Theory (p. 15). Routledge.

Ruth, S. P., Welp, Y., & Whitehead, L. (2017). Let the people rule? Direct democracy in the twenty-first century. ECPR Press.

Ruth-Lovell, S. P., Lührmann, A., & Grahn, S. (2019). Democracy and populism: Testing a contentious relationship. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3471132

Sancho, C. (2003). Un modelo diferente de democracia: La democracia deliberativa. Una aproximación a los modelos de J. Cohen y J. Habermas. Revista de Estudios Políticos, (122), 201-232.

Schmitter, P. C. (2004). The quality of democracy: The ambiguous virtues of accountability. Journal of Democracy, 15(4), 47-60.

Schumpeter, J. A. (2010). Capitalism, socialism and democracy. Routledge.

Stanley, B. (2008). The thin ideology of populism. Journal of Political Ideologies, 13(1), 95-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569310701822289

Taggart, P. (2000). Populism. Open University Press.

Taggart, P. (2002). Populism and the pathology of representative politics. En Democracies and the populist challenge (pp. 62-80). Springer.

Taggart, P. (2004). Populism and representative politics in contemporary Europe. Journal of Political Ideologies, 9(3), 269-288.

Taguieff, P.-A. (1995). Political science confronts populism: From a conceptual mirage to a real problem. Télos, 1995(103), 9-43.

Tännsjö, T. (1992). Populist democracy: A defence. Routledge.

Urbinati, N. (1998). Democracy and populism. Constellations, 5(1), 110-124. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.00080

Urbinati, N. (2014). Democracy disfigured. Harvard University Press.

Weber, M., Marino, L., Mommsen, W. J., & Villa, G. (1982). Parlamento e governo nel nuovo ordinamento della Germania e altri scritti politici. G. Einaudi.

Weyland, K. (1999). Populism in the age of neoliberalism. Populism in Latin America, 172-190.

Weyland, K. (2001). Clarifying a contested concept: Populism in the study of Latin American politics. Comparative Politics, 34(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.2307/422412

Weyland, K., Madrid, R. L., & Hunter, W. (2010). Leftist governments in Latin America: Successes and shortcomings. Cambridge University Press.

Query Statistics

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
Publcation metrics

896 377




 

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Los derechos de autor serán de la Universidad del Rosario. Cuando el autor quiera publicar el manuscrito en otra publicación, deberá pedir a la Editorial de la Universidad del Rosario los permisos correspondientes. De igual forma, cuando la Revista esté interesada en publicar artículos que ya han sido publicados en otras revistas, procederá a solicitar los permisos correspondientes en la editorial donde se realizó la primera publicación. Bajo una Creative Commons Attribution License, los autores pueden compartir el trabajo con un reconocimiento de la autoría del trabajo y la publicación inicial en esta revista.

Similar Articles

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > >> 

You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.