TY  - BOOK
AU  - Corrales,Javier
AU  - Penfold-Becerra,Michael
TI  - Dragon in the tropics: Hugo Chavez and the political economy of revolution in Venezuela 
SN  - 9780815704973 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - JL3831 .C68 2011
U1  - 987.06/42 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Brookings Institution Press
KW  - Chávez Frías, Hugo.
KW  - Venezuela
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1999-
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-179) and index; Introduction : new lessons from the Chavez revolution -- Power grabbing in democracy and the rise of a hybrid regime in Venezuela -- Economic policy and the oil honey pot -- Institutional resource curse : seizing political control of PDVSA -- Soft-balancing and social power diplomacy : Venezuela's new foreign policy and its contradictions -- Conclusion : hybrid regimes and populism in Venezuela and beyond
N2  - "A study of the Venezuelan revolution headed by Hugo Chávez, first elected president in 1999, with emphasis on how Chávez took a frail but still pluralistic democracy and turned it into a semi-authoritarian regime, achieving political transformation at great cost to the country's institutions, including its oil industry"--Provided by publisher
ER  -