Transaction Search Form: please type in any of the fields below.
Date: April 20, 2024 Sat
Time: 4:21 am
Time: 4:21 am
Results for democracy
1 results foundAuthor: Rodriguez, Mariana Title: Venezuela's Escalating Protests, Violence, and Political Instability: The Legacy of Chavez Summary: Over the last three weeks, Venezuela has found itself engulfed in protests against current President Nicolas Maduro's administration. While the student movement has spearheaded this uprising, many Venezuelans have taken to the streets to voice their grievances against the country's high levels of violent crime, high inflation rates, and the increasing scarcity of basic goods. As protests and violence continue, Hugo Chavez's hand‐picked successor faces potentially destabilizing levels of political violence in an era in which protests in other parts of the world (e.g., Ukraine, the Middle East) recently have shown the power of the street. Almost a year after Hugo Chavez's death and Maduro's election, were such high levels of political unrest foreseeable? A brief look at what we refer to as Chavez's "political culture legacy" suggests that, in the absence of Chavez‐like charismatic leadership and under the weight of the social and economic problems noted above, political instability was a likely outcome. To understand the nature of democratic attitudes under the Chavez regime and how they might help us understand the political instability in the country today, this Topical Brief analyzes survey data from the AmericasBarometer in Venezuela between 2007 and 2012. As in previous AmericasBarometer studies, we examine two attitudinal dimensions essential to democratic stability: political legitimacy (or system support) and political tolerance. Combining a society's level of support for the political system and its willingness to tolerate opposition to that system provides us a more general assessment of the type of political environment that such political attitudes are likely to engender (Seligson 2000; Booth and Seligson 2009; see also previous AmericasBarometer Reports). For example, in a country in which citizens express high levels of support for their political system and high levels of political tolerance, we can expect this political culture to be conducive to the emergence of a stable democratic system of government. Conversely, in a country where citizens neither support the political system nor tolerate those with different political views, the attitudinal landscape will likely not support a stable democracy but rather be more conducive to democratic breakdown. Details: Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University, 2014. 6p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 14, 2019 at: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/insights/ITB013en.pdf Year: 2014 Country: Venezuela URL: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/insights/ITB013en.pdf Shelf Number: 154144 Keywords: DemocracyHugo ChavezPolitical InstabilityPolitical LegitimacyPolitical ViolenceProtestRule of LawVenezuela |