Los Consejos Comunales: ¿Avance o retroceso para la democracia venezolana? por Goldfrank, Benjamin

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Community Councils: ¿Do they promote or discourage democracy in Venezuela? por Goldfrank, Benjamin

“…This article is an approach to the debate surrounding Venezuela´s community councils, a mechanism for citizen participation promoted, especially since 2005, by Hugo Chávez’s administration. After a brief description of the history and institutional characteristics of the community councils, the author describes academic production on the subject, identifying two opposing perspectives: one arguing in favor of their democratizing potential and the other arguing that the community councils are mechanisms at the service of the old logic of the political boss and are a threat to institutions of representative democracy. …”
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