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Dragon in the Tropics

Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez
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With the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, demand has developed for an update to the 2010 title, Dragon in the Tropics - the widely-hailed comprehensive account of how Chavez and his regime revamped Venezuela. Authors Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold have revised and updated their original work. Two new chapters have been added: "Succession Crises and Hybrid Regimes" examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after the passing of its namesake, and a new concluding chapter argues that Chavez's successor, Nicolas Maduro, has turned far more autocratic than anything seen in Venezuela since 1958. Finally, the authors apply lessons from the Arab Spring to show why Venezuela's succession produced neither regime collapse nor heightened political violence.
Javier Corrales is the John E. Kirkpatrick 1951 Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. He is the coauthor of U.S.-Venezuela Relations: Coping with Mid-Level Security Threats (Routledge, 2013) and author of Presidents Without Parties: The Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s (Penn State, 2002).Michael Penfold is professor of political economy and former dean of the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion in Caracas and the author of Dos Tradiciones,Un Conflicto: El Futuro de la Descentralizacion (Debates, 2009).
"Dragon in the Tropics is a must-read for anyone interested in Venezuelan politics, contemporary populism and the politics of oil." Post-Western World
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