Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship

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Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship contains original essays by a diverse group of leading and emerging scholars from North America, Europe, and Latin America. The book speaks to wide-ranging debates on democracy, the left, and citizenship in Latin America. What were the effects of a decade and a half of left and center-left governments? The central purpose of this book is to evaluate both the positive and negative effects of the Left turn on state-society relations and inclusion. Promises of social inclusion and the expansion of citizenship rights were paramount to the center-left discourses upon the factions' arrival to power in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This book is a first step in understanding to what extent these initial promises were or were not fulfilled, and why. In analyzing these issues, the authors demonstrate that these years yield both signs of progress in some areas and the deepening of historical problems in others. The contributors to this book reveal variation among and within countries, and across policy and issue areas such as democratic institution reforms, human rights, minorities’ rights, environmental questions, and violence. This focus on issues rather than countries distinguishes the book from other recent volumes on the left in Latin America, and the book will speak to a broad and multi-dimensional audience, both inside and outside the academic world. Contributors: Manuel Balán, Françoise Montambeault, Philip Oxhorn, Maxwell A. Cameron, Kenneth M. Roberts, Nathalia Sandoval-Rojas, Daniel M. Brinks, Benjamin Goldfrank, Roberta Rice, Elizabeth Jelin, Celina Van Dembroucke, Nora Nagels, Merike Blofield, Jordi Díez, Eve Bratman, Gabriel Kessler, Olivier Dabène, Jared Abbott, Steve Levitsky Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1: Theoretical Questions One Widening and Deepening Citizenship fromthe Left? A Relational and Issue-Based Comparative Approach Two Liberalism and Its Competitors in Latin America: Oligarchy, Populism, and the Left Part 2: Deepening Democratic Institutions Three Parties and Party Systems in Latin America’s Left Turn Four Entrenching Social Constitutionalism?Contributions and Challenges of the Leftin Latin American Constitutionalism Five Participatory Democracy in Latin America? Limited Legacies of the Left Turn Six Indigenous Autonomies under the New Leftin the Andes Part 3: The Multiple Strugglesfor Inclusive Citizenship Rights Seven Human Rights and Memory Politics underShifting Political Orientations Eight Gender and Conditional Cash Transfers: Shifting the Citizenship Regime in Bolivia Nine Improvements at the Limits of Society: The Left Tide and Domestic Workers’ Rights Ten The Record of Latin America’s Left on Sexual Citizenship Eleven Sustainable Development Reconsidered: The Left Turn’s Legacies in the Amazon Twelve Changes in Urban Crime: From the “Neoliberal Period” to the “Left Turn” Part 4: Conclusions Thirteen Uses and Misuses of the “Left” Category in Latin America Fourteen The Left Turn and Citizenship: How Much Has Changed List of Contributors Index