WHO VOTES FOR CHAVISMO?
The conventional wisdom about contemporary Venezuelan politics is that class voting has become commonplace, with the poor doggedly supporting Hugo Chávez while the rich oppose him. This class voting is considered both a new feature of Venezuelan politics and a puzzle given the multiclass bases of pr...
| Publicado en: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 7 - 33 |
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Cambridge University Press
2010
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