Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First Century

Carlos de la Torre is the director of international studies and a professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He is the author of Populist Seduction in Latin America. Cynthia J. Arnson is the director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is the editor of In the Wake of War: Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America.

This volume uses a well-defined methodological approach that sets it off from the vast scholarly literature on the topic of Latin American populism... The volume's comparative approach, both in national and continent-wide contexts, leads to valuable insights that will most likely serve as points of reference for future research and debate. -- Steve Ellner Hispanic American Historical Review It is a must-read for both younger students and experienced academics because it manages to combine its informative aspects with concrete and in-depth theoretical and empirical analysis Political Studies Review