Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword: Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy ix
4. Introduction: Participation, Politics, and Culture Emerging Fragments of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy 1
5. 1. Defying the Iron Law of Oligarchy I: How Does “El Pueblo” Conceive Democracy? 28
6. 2. Participatory Democracy in Venezuela: Origins, Ideas, and Implementation 58
7. 3. Urban Land Committees: Co-optation, Autonomy, and Protagonism 80
8. 4. Catia Sees You: Community Television, Clientelism, and the State in the Chávez Era 104
9. 5. Radio Bemba in an Age of Electronic Media: The Dynamics of Popular Communication in Chávez’s Venezuela 131
10. 6. “We Are Still Rebels”: The Challenge of Popular History in Bolivarian Venezuela 157
11. 7. The Misiones of the Chávez Government 186
12. 8. Defying the Iron Law of Oligarchy II: Debating Democracy Online in Venezuela 219
13. 9. Venezuela’s Telenovela: Polarization and Political Discourse in Cosita Rica 244
14. 10. The Color of Mobs: Racial Politics, Ethnopopulism, and Representation in the Chávez Era 271
15. 11. Taking Possession of Public Discourse: Women and the Practice of Political Poetry in Venezuela 298
16. 12. Christianity and Politics in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy: Catholics, Evangelicals, and Political Polarization 315
17. Afterword: Chavismo and Venezuelan Democracy in a New Decade 340
18. References 343
19. Contributors 369
20. Index 373