Introduction : new perspectives and the Chavez phenomenon / Steve Ellner and Miguel Tinker Salas
The Venezuelan exceptionalism thesis : separating myth from reality / Steve Ellner and Miguel Tinker Salas
Venezuelan social conflict in a global context / Edgardo Lander
U.S. oil companies in Venezuela : the forging of an enduring alliance / Miguel Tinker Salas
Chávez and the search for an alternative to neoliberalism / Dick Parker
Trade union autonomy and the emergence of a new labor movement in Venezuela / Steve Ellner
Ethnicity and revolution : the political economy of racism in Venezuela / Jesús María Herrera Salas
Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution : who are the Chavistas? / Cristóbal Valencia Ramírez
Social movements in a polarized setting : myths of Venezuelan civil society / María Pilar García-Guadilla
When "no" means "yes to revolution" : electoral politics in Bolivarian Venezuela / Daniel Hellinger
Confronting Hugo Chavez : U.S. "democracy promotion" in Latin America / Christopher I. Clement.
