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GARGARELLA, Roberto. The Left That Is Not: On the Concept of "Left" in The Resurgence of the American Left. Polít. gob [online]. 2014, vol.21, n.2, pp.443-477. ISSN 1665-2037.

In this article I critically examine the concept of the "left" that is employed in the book The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, by Steven Levitsky y Kenneth Roberts. The critique can be seen as part of a long academic conversation concerning the meaning and implications of the re-emergence of a "new left" in Latin America. I object to their definition not only as a consequence of the political and economic content that they associate with the idea of the "left", but also as a result of the programatic objectives that they relate to leftist governments. By the end of the text, I offer an alternative definition of the term, which is based on the ideals of economic and political democracy.

Palabras llave : left; right; Latin America; property; market; democracy; presidentialism.

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