Lessons of the Venezuelan Experience

by Goodman, Louis W.; Forman, Johanna Mendelson; Naim, Moises; Tulchin, Jose

• ISBN13: 9780943875668
• ISBN10: 0943875668
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Abbreviations	xiii
Editors and Contributors	xvii
Introduction: The Decline of Venezuelan Exceptionalism	3	(28)
I The Players
Political Parties and the Democratic Crisis	31	(23)
John D. Martz
More than Failed Coups: The Crisis in Venezuelan Civil-Military Relations	54	(25)
Winfield J. Burggraaff
Richard L. Millett
The Evolution of Popular Opinion	79	(36)
Andrew Templeton
Venezuela's New Polotical Actors	115	(21)
Juan Carlos Navarro
Debilitating Democracy: Political Elites and Military Rebels	136	(29)
Felipe Aguero
II Two Key Sectors
The Venezuelan Private Sector: From Courting the State to Courting the Market	165	(28)
Moises Naim
Antonio Frances
Reforming Agriculture	193	(30)
Jonathan Coles
III The Venezuelan State
Legitimacy, Governability, and Reform in Venezuela	223	(29)
Daniel H. Levine
Brian F. Crisp
Quitting Populism Cold Turkey: The ``Big Bang'' Approach to Macroeconomic Balance	252	(31)
Ricardo Hausmann
The Question of Inefficiency and Inequality: Social Policy in Venezuela	283	(28)
Janet Kelly
Corruption and Political Crisis	311	(23)
Rogelio Perez Perdomo
Political Crisis and Constitutional Reform	334	(31)
Miriam Kornblith
IV The World Arena
A New Approach to the World? The Gran Viraje and Venezuelan Foreign Policy	365	(22)
Andres Serbin
Venezuela and the United States: Putting Energy in the Enterprise	387	(11)
Norman A. Bailey
Epilogue	398	(9)
Index	407