Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser is an Associate Professor at the School of Political Science of the Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. He is the co-editor, with Cas Mudde, of Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or Corrective for Democracy? (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and together with Juan Pablo Luna he is completing an edited volume titled The Resilience of the Latin America Right that will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2014.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Populism - the eternal ideology
Populism - once associated mainly with Latin America - is now part of the political mainstream in western and...
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Published in: HomeElections in Chile: a triumphing centre-left and a centre-right at the crossroads
If the Chilean centre-right is interested in surviving and continuing to be a relevant electoral force, it should...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Populism, its opposites, and its contentious relationship with democracy
The recent Eurocrisis has shown a fact that is relatively obvious for observers of Latin American and US politics,...
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Published in: HomeChavismo without Chávez: a populist conundrum
Those who analyse Chavismo should not forget that large sections of the Venezuelan population not only share the...