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Popular Sovereignty and Constituent Power in Latin America

Democracy from Below

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Editors:
  1. Emelio Betances

    1. Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, USA

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  2. Carlos Figueroa Ibarra

    1. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

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  • Examines the troubled relationship between movements and the state, regardless of whether the latter’s agenda is progressive or not

  • Draws from a variety of national experiences and a variety of different types of social movements in the region

  • Constitutes a thematic text that explains how a two-track approach, bottom up and top down, has shaped the social transformation of Latin America

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Emelio Betances, Carlos Figueroa Ibarra
    Pages 1-13

  3. Constituent and Constituted Power: Reading Social Transformation in Latin America

    • Dario Azzellini
    Pages 15-39

  4. The National-Popular Alternative and the Processes of Democratization from Below in the Andean Nations

    • Octavio Humberto Moreno Velador
    Pages 41-61

  5. Visions of Democracy in Bolivia Between the Dictatorships and the Process of Change: Suite in Two Movements

    • Eduardo Córdova
    Pages 63-87

  6. Movements Towards the People: A Proposal to Think of Political Subjects in Bolivia and Argentina

    • María Antonia Muñoz
    Pages 89-111

  7. Participative Democracy and the Alternative National Project of Morena in Mexico

    • Carlos Figueroa Ibarra
    Pages 113-135

  8. Building Social Citizenship: Popular Movements in the Dominican Republic, 1992–2014

    • Emelio Betances
    Pages 137-158

  9. Popular Feminism at Work: Redistribution and Recognition in the Marcha Mundial das Mulheres in Brazil

    • Nathalie Lebon
    Pages 159-182

  10. Popular Power and Regional Integration: An Analysis of the ALBA-TCP

    • Liza Elena Aceves López, Guiseppe Lo Brutto
    Pages 183-202

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 203-208
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About this book

This book combines a bottom-up and top-down approach to the study of social movements in relationship to the development of constituent and constituted power in Latin America. The contributors to this volume argue that the radical transformation of liberal representative democracy into participative democracy is what colours these processes as revolutionary. The core themes include popular sovereignty, constituted power, constituent power, participatory democracy, free trade agreements, social citizenship, as well as redistribution and recognition issues. Unlike other collections, which provide broad coverage of social movements at the expense of depth, this book is of thematic focus and illuminates the relationships between rulers and ruled as they transform liberal democracy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, USA

    Emelio Betances

  • Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

    Carlos Figueroa Ibarra

About the editors

Emelio Betances holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (1989) from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA, and teaches Sociology at Gettysburg College, USA. His publications include State and Society in the Dominican Republic (1995), The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America: The Dominican Case in Comparative Perspectives (2007), and En busca de la ciudadanía: los movimientos sociales y la democratización en la República Dominicana (2016).

Carlos Figueroa Ibarra received his Ph.D. in Sociology and teaches at the graduate program of the Institute of Social Sciences at the Benemérita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico. His works include El Proletariado rural en el agro guatemalteco (1980), El recurso del miedo. Ensayo sobre Estado y terror en Guatemala (1980), Paz Tejada: militar y revolucionario (2001), and En el umbral del posneoliberalismo? Izquierda y gobierno en América Latina (2010).  

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