Latin America has recently experienced a powerful resurgence of populism, a phenomenon that has had an outsized influence on the region’s politics. What explains this resurgence? And what is distinctive about this new populist era? Answering these questions, Robert Barr offers a refined conceptualization of populism and an intriguing explanation of its recent electoral successes across the continent.Contents:Populism in Latin America.The Concepts of Populism.Explaining the Third Era.Populism in Bolivia.A Regional View.Outsiders and Others.The Implications of Populism.Appendixes.