Herbert Kitschelt, Kirk A. Hawkins, Juan Pablo Luna

Latin American Party Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the the degree to which political party systems were programmatically structured at the end of the 20th century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 825g
• ISBN-13: 9780521114950
• ISBN-10: 0521114950
• Artikelnr.: 28111355

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.