| Date | Time | Location |
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| Friday, November 19, 2010 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | External Event, Sidney Smith Hall, Room 3130 100 St. George Street M5S 3K3 |
Charismatic presidents have come to power promising to terminate neoliberalism in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. But in addition to their antipathy toward neoliberal economic policies, Evo Morales, Rafael Correa and Hugo Chávez also share deep ambivalence about the decentralizing reforms that accompanied those policies. Decentralization represents a major threat to each president because of the political shelter that subnational governments have provided for opponents of “21st century socialism.” In response, all three presidents have sought to reverse earlier policies of decentralization and to rein in subnational opponents via recentralization. However, they have adopted distinct strategies in the pursuit of this common goal and they have achieved varying levels of success, which can be understood as the result of geographic differences in the nature of the subnational opposition that each president has confronted.
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Kent Eaton is Professor and Chair of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work focuses on decentralization, federalism and subnational politics in Latin America. In addition to UCSC, he has taught at the Naval Postgraduate School and at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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