Scholarly Article
Populist Citizenship in the Bolivarian Revolutions
Author:
Carlos de la Torre
University of Kentucky, US
Abstract
This article analyzes the contours of populist citizenship as an alternative to neoliberal models of citizenship as consumption, and to liberal models that protect pluralism. It compares how political, socioeconomic, civil, collective, gender, and GLBT rights were imagined and implemented in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. It explains why despite the expansion of some rights, populists’ use of discriminatory legalism to regulate the public sphere and civil society led to the displacement of democracy toward authoritarianism.
How to Cite:
de la Torre, C., 2017. Populist Citizenship in the Bolivarian Revolutions. Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 1(1), pp.4–29. DOI: http://doi.org/10.23870/marlasv1n1ct
Published on
24 Mar 2017.
Peer Reviewed
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