Popular Sovereignty and Constituent Power in Latin America [electronic resource] : Democracy from Below / edited by Emelio Betances, Carlos Figueroa Ibarra.

1. Introduction -- 2. Constituent and Constituted Power: Reading Social Transformation in Latin America -- 3. The National-Popular Alternative and the Processes of Democratization from Below in the Andean Nations -- 4. Visions of Democracy in Bolivia between the Dictatorships and the Process of Change. Suite in Two Movements -- 5. Movements towards the People. A Proposal to Think of Political Subjects in Bolivia and Argentina -- 6. Participative Democracy and the Alternative National Project of Morena in México -- 7. Building Social Citizenship: Popular Movements in the Dominican Republic, 1992-2014 -- 8. Popular Feminism at Work: Redistribution and Recognition in the Marcha Mundial das Mulheres in Brazil -- 9. Popular Power and Regional Integration. An Analysis of the ALBA-TCP.

This book combines a bottom-up and top-down approach to the study of social movements in relationship to the development of constituent and constituted power in Latin America. The contributors to this volume argue that the radical transformation of liberal representative democracy into participative democracy is what colours these processes as revolutionary. The core themes include popular sovereignty, constituted power, constituent power, participatory democracy, free trade agreements, social citizenship, as well as redistribution and recognition issues. Unlike other collections, which provide broad coverage of social movements at the expense of depth, this book is of thematic focus and illuminates the relationships between rulers and ruled as they transform liberal democracy.