Author: Sebastián L. Mazzuca | Journal of Democracy

Sebastián L. Mazzuca is professor of political economy at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), and senior research fellow at the Centro de Investigación y Acción Social (CIAS) in Buenos Aires. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Academy for International and Area Studies.

April 2013, Volume 24, Issue 2

Lessons from Latin America: The Rise of Rentier Populism

Sebastián L. Mazzuca

Latin America’s much-discussed political “left turn” has taken two very different forms. Why has the region’s commodities boom led some left-turn states to move toward “plebiscitarian superpresidentialism,” while others have resisted this temptation?