Venezuela: Democracy Hangs On

President Hugo Cháez's regime demonstrates how a public desire for change plus state resources can be exploited to undermine democracy.

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…

The historical record since 1945 gives us a picture of how populists operate once they hold political power. The record shows that populism is inimical to liberal democracy, and not…