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Latin American Party Systems by Kirk A. Hawkins, Herbert Kitschelt, Guillermo Rosas, Juan Pablo Luna, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister (Hardcover, 2010)

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.

Subject Area
Political Sociology
Author
Kirk A. Hawkins, Herbert Kitschelt, Guillermo Rosas, Juan Pablo Luna, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister
Publication Name
Latin American Party Systems
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Economics
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
416 Pages

Title_Author
Kirk A. Hawkins, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, Guillermo Rosas, Herbert Kitschelt, Juan Pablo Luna
Series Title
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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