TY - BOOK AU - Ponniah,Thomas AU - Eastwood,Jonathan TI - The revolution in Venezuela: social and political change under Chávez T2 - David Rockefeller Center series on Latin American studies, Harvard University SN - 9780674061385 AV - 120 F 2329 R454 2011 U1 - 987.0642 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge, MA PB - Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Distributed by Harvard University Press KW - Chávez Frías, Hugo KW - Chávez Frías, Hugo, KW - Revolutions KW - Venezuela KW - 21st century KW - Revoluciones KW - Siglo XXI KW - Politics and government KW - 1999- KW - Política y gobierno KW - Social conditions KW - Condiciones sociales N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction : the revolution in Venezuela / Jonathan Eastwood -- pt. I. State/society relations. State reflections : the 2002 coup against Hugo Chávez / Fernando Coronil -- Why polarize? Advantages and disadvantages of a rational-choice analysis of government-opposition relations under Hugo Chávez / Javier Corrales -- Venezuela's experiment in participatory democracy / Gregory Wilpert -- Venezuela's presidential elections of 2006 : toward 21st century socialism? / Margarita López-Maya and Luis E. Lander -- pt. II. The Bolivarian project. Advancing women's rights from inside and outside the Bolivarian Revolution, 1998-2010 / Cathy A. Rakowski and Giaconda Espina -- Venezuela in the Chávez years : its economy and influence on the region / Mark Weisbrot -- History is not over : " the Bolivarian Revolution, "Barrio Adentro," and health care in Venezuela / Carles Muntaner, Haejoo Chung, Qamar Mahmood, and Francisco Armada -- The new balancing act : international relations theory and Venezuela's foreign policy / Mark Eric Williams -- Conclusion : the conceptual revolution in Venezuela / Thomas Ponniah N2 - Is Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution under Hugo Chávez truly revolutionary? Some see the president as a shining knight of socialism, while others see him as an avenging Stalinist strongman. But the Chávez government does not fall easily into a seamless fable of emancipatory or authoritarian history, as these distinguished essays make clear ER -