Party and Non-party Actors in Latin American Electoral Politics
Author: Roberto Espíndola
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 18
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Author: Roberto Espíndola
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laura Wills Otero
Publisher: Universidad de los Andes
Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9587741838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParties are the major actors of political representation in democracies. They have been acknowledged repeatedly as the critical link between voters, representatives and guarantors of democratic governance. Without them, a democracy can hardly be said to exist because they are the principal links between government and society. However, parties can lose their representative capacity, and be challenged by disaffected electorates that pursue other alternatives for political involvement. This book focuses upon the electoral weakening of Latin America's traditional parties. These parties dominated the political arena in the region during the last decades of the twentieth century. They played a significant role in the legitimation of democratic politics in particular when countries transited from authoritarian regimes in the late 1950s (Colombia and Venezuela) and later on, in the late 1970s (e.g., Ecuador) and 1980s (e.g., Argentina, Uruguay, Chile). Latin American traditional parties structured post-authoritarian political and party systems; they defined the rules of the democratic game (i.e., electoral systems); they became consolidated as the principal agents of political representation and were the main actors in policy-making processes. However, by the beginning of the 21st century (2000-2005) many of them faded, and political outsiders with antiestablishment discourses as well as new parties and political movements flourished.
Author: J Mark Ruhl
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-30
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1000312372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an introduction to party politics, elections, and electoral behavior in Latin America. The subject is vast and the available research on it extensive. The principal purpose is to summarize and conceptualize the subject, making comparisons where appropriate among nations. The authors try to point out both the specific, parochial experiences of individual Latin American nations as well as the more universal experiences.
Author: Ronald H. McDonald
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jennifer Cyr
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Published: 2017
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ISBN-13: 9781108103626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitical parties in the developing world often face serious electoral crises; from one election to the next, parties can be decisively voted out of national office. What happens to a party that experiences this kind of voter rejection? The literature suggests it will disappear, leaving the party system vulnerable to the inexperience of new political actors. The Fates of Political Parties offers a more nuanced perspective: focusing on a number of individual Latin American countries as well as the region as a whole, it identifies considerable variation regarding how parties survive and even revive after an electoral crisis. The book revitalizes the study of parties as complex entities that rely on a potentially diverse set of resources to remain active in politics. It demonstrates that parties can be remarkably enduring institutions; surviving and reviving parties represent instances of institutional stability. Where they endure, those parties can sustain competition and strengthen the democratic regime.
Author: Jorge I Dominguez
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1135564418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1994. This is Volume five of seven of a collection of essays that gathers together scholarly debates from the 1950s to the 1990s on Mexico, Central and South America. This text looks at topics such as government parties in Latin America, the Mexican elections of 1958, political campaigning, the scope of the Chilean Party systems, the case of Peronism and electoral change amongst others.
Author: Scott Mainwaring
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-02-08
Total Pages: 525
ISBN-13: 1107175526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Juan Pablo Luna
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Published: 2021
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ISBN-13: 9781009072045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"More often than not, contemporary works on political parties start by referring to Schattschneider's now famous dictum concerning democracy's need for political parties. At the same time, many authors have identified parties that, in democratic contexts, fail in various ways to fulfill the function of democratic representation. Mainstream political science has defined a political party as a group of candidates who compete in elections (Downs 1957, Schlesinger 1994, among many others). This minimal definition has important analytical implications. When analyzing electoral politics, we run the risk of looking for parties - and thus, finding them - without realizing that what we have found, empirically, is only weakly related to democratic representation"--
Author: Jennifer Pribble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-22
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1107030226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the variation in welfare and other social assistance policies in Latin America.
Author: Richard L. Millett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-04-26
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1135854165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly thirty years have passed since Latin America began the arduous task of transitioning from military-led rule to democracy. In this time, more countries have moved toward the institutional bases of democracy than at any time in the region’s history. Nearly all countries have held free, competitive elections and most have had peaceful alternations in power between opposing political forces. Despite these advances, however, Latin American countries continue to face serious domestic and international challenges to the consolidation of stable democratic governance. The challenges range from weak political institutions, corruption, legacies of militarism, transnational crime and globalization among others. In Latin American Democracy contributors – both academics and practitioners, North Americans and Latin Americans – explore and assess the state of democratic consolidation in Latin America by focusing on the specific issues and challenges confronting democratic governance in the region.