“Chávez to Maduro: Understanding Venezuela’s Growing Crisis” with Dr. Donald Share, University of Puget Sound.
Professor Share will describe the origins, evolution, and successes and failures of the political regime established by Hugo Chávez after 1998. He will then explore the evolution of the current political crisis after Chávez’s death in 2013 and consider some possible scenarios for Venezuela’s future.
University of Puget Sound Professor Emeritus Don Share received his B.A. degree in Political Science and Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from Stanford University. His areas of expertise are Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Economy, with an emphasis on the politics of Southern Europe and Latin America.
His publications include two books, The Making of Spanish Democracy, and Dilemmas of Social Democracy: The Spanish Socialist Workers Party in the 1980s. In addition, he has produced numerous articles and book chapters on Spanish politics, the Spanish Socialist Party, and comparative transitions to democracy. Most recently, he has collaborated with Professors Karl Fields and Patrick O’Neil on a comparative politics textbook entitled Cases in Comparative Politics. In addition to an Introduction to Comparative Politics, Share teaches a course on Latin American Politics, a course on US-Latin American Relations, and a Senior Seminar in Comparative Politics, and an Introduction to Latin American Studies (a required course for the Latin American Studies minor).
Professor Share will describe the origins, evolution, and successes and failures of the political regime established by Hugo Chávez after 1998. He will then explore the evolution of the current political crisis after Chávez’s death in 2013 and consider some possible scenarios for Venezuela’s future.
University of Puget Sound Professor Emeritus Don Share received his B.A. degree in Political Science and Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from Stanford University. His areas of expertise are Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Economy, with an emphasis on the politics of Southern Europe and Latin America.
His publications include two books, The Making of Spanish Democracy, and Dilemmas of Social Democracy: The Spanish Socialist Workers Party in the 1980s. In addition, he has produced numerous articles and book chapters on Spanish politics, the Spanish Socialist Party, and comparative transitions to democracy. Most recently, he has collaborated with Professors Karl Fields and Patrick O’Neil on a comparative politics textbook entitled Cases in Comparative Politics. In addition to an Introduction to Comparative Politics, Share teaches a course on Latin American Politics, a course on US-Latin American Relations, and a Senior Seminar in Comparative Politics, and an Introduction to Latin American Studies (a required course for the Latin American Studies minor).