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- Title
Ignorant Mobs or Rational Actors? Understanding Support for Venezuela's 'Bolivarian Revolution'.
- Authors
Lupien, Pascal
- Abstract
The article looks at looks at politics and government in Venezuela, focusing on the impetus behind popular support among low-income people for former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his policies, referred to as the Bolivarian Revolution. The author outlines his qualitative research on the views of low-income Venezuelans and stresses the importance of such research, criticizing theories which identify collective action by the poor and support for populist leaders like Chávez as irrational or the result of the leader's charisma or manipulation. Topics include redistributive economic policies, rational choice theory, local participatory democracy structures created under Chávez, and coverage of the country's policies in domestic and foreign mass media.
- Subjects
VENEZUELA; VENEZUELAN politics &; government, 1999-; POOR people's attitudes; CHAVEZ Frias, Hugo, 1954-2013; POOR people; RATIONAL choice theory; INCOME redistribution; PARTICIPATORY democracy; POPULISM; ECONOMIC policy; POLITICAL participation
- Publication
Political Science Quarterly (Oxford University Press / USA), 2015, Vol 130, Issue 2, p319
- ISSN
0032-3195
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/polq.12325