
Latin American Traditional Parties, 1978-2006. Electoral Trajectories and Internal Party Politics
By Laura Wills OteroLength9h 54m
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Parties 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.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length9 hrs 54 mins
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Publish dateOct 1, 2015
LanguageSpanish
Table of contents
1COLECCIÓN GENERAL
2ciencia política
3Latin American Traditional Parties, 1978-2006 Electoral Trajectories and Internal Party Politics
4© Laura Wills-Otero
5Preface
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6Acknowledgments
7Introduction
81 Determinants of Parties’ Electoral Performance: Traditional Explanations Reconsidered
92 The Internal Organization of Latin American Parties
103 Case Studies: Traditional Parties in Colombia and Venezuela (pt. 1)
113 Case Studies: Traditional Parties in Colombia and Venezuela (pt. 2)
124 The Effects of Parties Internal Organization on Their Electoral Performance, 1978-2006
13Conclusion
14Appendices
15Name (Name) Party/Country (Partido/País) Date (Fecha)
16Appendix B Descriptive Statistics for Parties’ Internal Features
170 Hierarchical
181 Semi-Hierarchical
192 Mixed
203 Semi-Horizontal
214 Horizontal
22Appendix C Classification of Latin American Regimes, 1978-2006
23Appendix D Multilevel Models of Change
24Appendix E
25Model 9B
26programmatic coherence, 58