Author : Scott Mainwaring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107175526
This book generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems and contributes richly to major theoretical debates about party systems and democracy.
Author : Herbert Kitschelt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139483846
Political parties provide a crucial link between voters and politicians. This link takes a variety of forms in democratic regimes, from the organization of political machines built around clientelistic networks to the establishment of sophisticated programmatic parties. Latin American Party Systems provides a novel theoretical argument to account for differences in the degree to which political party systems in the region were programmatically structured at the end of the twentieth century. Based on a diverse array of indicators and surveys of party legislators and public opinion, the book argues that learning and adaptation through fundamental policy innovations are the main mechanisms by which politicians build programmatic parties. Marshalling extensive evidence, the book's analysis shows the limits of alternative explanations and substantiates a sanguine view of programmatic competition, nevertheless recognizing that this form of party system organization is far from ubiquitous and enduring in Latin America.
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1995
Category :
ISBN : 0804765375
"Third, the authors investigate the relationship between major parties and the state, revealing the extent to which parties are dependent on state resources to maintain power and win votes. Fourth, the contributions assess the importance of different electoral regimes for shaping broader patterns of party competition. Finally, and most important, the authors characterize the nature of the party system in each country - how institutionalized it is and how it can be classified."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Kenneth M. Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521856876
This book explores the impact of economic crises and free-market reforms on party systems and political representation in contemporary Latin America. It explains why some patterns of market reform align and stabilize party systems, whereas other patterns of reform leave party systems vulnerable to widespread social protest and electoral instability. In contrast to other works on the topic, this book accounts for both the institutionalization and the breakdown of party systems, and it explains why Latin America turned to the Left politically in the aftermath of the market-reform process. Ultimately, it explains why this "left turn" was more radical in some countries than others and why it had such varied effects on national party systems.
Author : Donna Lee Van Cott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521707039
Provides a detailed treatment of an important topic that has received no scholarly attention: the surprising transformation of indigenous peoples' movements into viable political parties in the 1990s in four Latin American countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela) and their failure to succeed in two others (Argentina, Peru). The parties studied are crucial components of major trends in the region. By providing to voters clear programs for governing, and reaching out in particular to under-represented social groups, they have enhanced the quality of democracy and representative government. Based on extensive original research and detailed historical case studies, the book links historical institutional analysis and social movement theory to a study of the political systems in which the new ethnic cleavages emerged. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications for democracy of the emergence of this phenomenon in the context of declining public support for parties.
Author : Jennifer Pribble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107030226
Explores the variation in welfare and other social assistance policies in Latin America.
Author : Juan Pablo Luna
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 2014-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1421413906
Students and scholars of both Latin American politics and comparative politics will find The Resilience of the Latin American Right of vital interest.
Author : Diana Kapiszewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 110890159X
Latin American states took dramatic steps toward greater inclusion during the late twentieth and early twenty-first Centuries. Bringing together an accomplished group of scholars, this volume examines this shift by introducing three dimensions of inclusion: official recognition of historically excluded groups, access to policymaking, and resource redistribution. Tracing the movement along these dimensions since the 1990s, the editors argue that the endurance of democratic politics, combined with longstanding social inequalities, create the impetus for inclusionary reforms. Diverse chapters explore how factors such as the role of partisanship and electoral clientelism, constitutional design, state capacity, social protest, populism, commodity rents, international diffusion, and historical legacies encouraged or inhibited inclusionary reform during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Featuring original empirical evidence and a strong theoretical framework, the book considers cross-national variation, delves into the surprising paradoxes of inclusion, and identifies the obstacles hindering further fundamental change.
Author : Steven Levitsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107145945
This book presents a new and conflict-centered theory of successful party-building, drawing on diverse cases from across Latin America.
Author : Jason Seawright
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804783926
Most party systems are relatively stable over time. Yet in the 1980s and 1990s, established party systems in Peru and Venezuela broke down, leading to the elections of outsider Alberto Fujimori and anti-party populist Hugo Chavez. Focusing on these two cases, this book explores the causes of systemic collapse. To date, scholars have pointed to economic crises, the rise of the informal economy, and the charisma and political brilliance of Fujimori and Chavez to explain the changes in Peru and Venezuela. This book uses economic data, surveys, and experiments to show that these explanations are incomplete. Political scientist Jason Seawright argues that party-system collapse is motivated fundamentally by voter anger at the traditional political parties, which is produced by corruption scandals and failures of representation. Integrating economic, organizational, and individual considerations, Seawright provides a new explanation and compelling new evidence to present a fuller picture of voters' decisions and actions in bringing about party-system collapse, and the rise of important outsider political leaders in South America.
