Latin American Party Systems - Couverture rigide

Kitschelt, Herbert; Hawkins, Kirk A.; Luna, Juan Pablo; Rosas, Guillermo; Zechmeister, Elizabeth J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521114950 ISBN 13 : 9780521114950

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Kitschelt Herbert Hawkins Kirk A Luna Juan Pablo R

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521114950
• ISBN 13: 9780521114950
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416