Populism in Latin America: Second Edition

A scholarly analysis of the origins, evolution, and enduring impact of populism in Latin American political life.

This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular.

For more than one hundred years-from the beginning of the twentieth to the early twenty-first century-Latin American populists proved amazingly successful at gaini...