Latin American party systems [electronic resource] / Herbert Kitschelt ... [et al.].
Kitschelt, Herbert.
2010
JL969.A45 L37 2010eb
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Title Latin American party systems [electronic resource] / Herbert Kitschelt ... [et al.].
ISBN 9780511743016 (electronic bk.)
9780521114950
0521114950
9780521132664 (pbk.)
0521132665 (pbk.)
Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 392 p.) : ill.
Call Number JL969.A45 L37 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 324.2098
Summary 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.
Note 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-381) and index.
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Series Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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Introduction: Party competition in Latin America
1. Patterns of programmatic party competition in Latin America
Part I. Describing Programmatic Structuration: 2. Issues, ideologies, and partisan divides: imprints of programmatic structure in Latin American legislatures
3. Left-right semantics as a facilitator of programmatic structuring
4. Political representation in Latin America
5. Ideological cohesion of political parties in Latin America
Part II. Causes and Correlates of Programmatic Party System Structuration: Explaining Cross-National Diversity
6. Long-term influences on the structuring of Latin American Party systems
7. Democratic politics and political economy since the 1980s: transforming the programmatic structure of Latin American party systems?
8. Programmatic structuration around religion and political regime
9. Programmatic structuration and democratic performance
10. Conclusion.

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