Herbert Kitschelt

Latin American Party Systems (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511740480
• Artikelnr.: 38205738

Autorenporträt

Herbert Kitschelt is the George V. Allen Professor of International Relations in Duke University's Political Science Department. He has published widely on comparative political parties and party systems in Western Europe and postcommunist Eastern Europe and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

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;
Conclusion.