Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Comparative Analysis and Critique

Helena Alviar García
Edwar Elgar

The Legal Architecture of Populism: Exploring Antagonists in Venezuela and Colombia

Helena Alviar García, Gerald L. Neuman
Cambridge University Press

This chapter examines populism in Latin America as a method of exercising power, rather than a specific set of substantive provisions. It explores the commonalities between left-populism and right-populism as illustrated by two ideologically opposing figures, Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Álvaro ...

Neoliberalism as a form of Authoritarian Constitutionalism

Helena Alviar García, Günter Frankenberg
Edwar Elgar

The chapter proposes to include in the term ‘authoritarian constitutionalism’ the set of provisions that fix neoliberal orthodoxy as the only policy choice available to public officials. It opposes the justification that economic policy should be protected from political deliberation and argues that ...

La tecnocracia o la tiranía de los expertos

Tatiana Alfonso Sierra
2016