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43 Fletcher F. World Aff. 95 (2019)
Grassroots Participation in Defense of Dictatorship: Venezuela's Communal Councils and the Future of Participatory Democracy in Latin America

handle is hein.journals/forwa43 and id is 323 raw text is: 95 Grassroots Participation in Defense of Dictatorship: Venezuela's Communal Councils and the Future of Participatory Democracy in Latin America JARED ABBOTT AND MICHAEL MCCARTHY ABSTRACT With Venezuela' Chavista political movement battling to keep its grass- roots participatory experiments alive amid a cataclysmic economic depression, we have a new crucial case for assessing the evolution and continuation ofparticipa- tory institutions under lefi-wing populist governments. Based on original recent survey data, we marshal evidence to show that the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela's (PSUV) use of grassroots participation to defend the Maduro regime has weakened the quality of community-level participation, just as it may have lengthened the life-span of Chavismo's most important and expansive Jared Abbott is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Harvard University. Michael McCarthy is Adjunct Professor ofPolitical Science at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, Research Fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latino Affairs at American University, and Founder of Caracas Wire, a research consultancy providing comprehensive coverage of Venezuela's power struggle. His dissertation, Populism in Power: Venezuela's Chavismo from Mobilization to Party-Building, addressed the evolution of Caracas-based grassroots level organizing processes from the 1990s to 2010. VOL.43:2 SUMMER 2019

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