Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781107145948 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 574 str.

Steven Levitsky; James Loxton; Brandon Van Dyck

Opis

Nearly four decades since the onset of the third wave, political parties remain weak in Latin America: parties have collapsed in much of the region, and most new party-building efforts have failed. Why do some new parties succeed while most fail? This book challenges the widespread belief that democracy and elections naturally give rise to strong parties and argues that successful party-building is more likely to occur under conditions of intense conflict than under routine democracy. Periods of revolution, civil war, populist mobilization, or authoritarian repression crystallize partisan attachments, create incentives for organization-building, and generate a 'higher cause' that attracts committed activists. Empirically rich chapters cover diverse cases from across Latin America, including both successful and failed cases.

Recenzje

'[Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America] enhances knowledge about conditions for successful party-building in an era of great challenges to that enterprise. The authors include an attractive mix of distinguished senior scholars and excellent younger colleagues. … Most of the chapters are very good and the best are outstanding.' Scott Mainwaring, ReVista

Spis treści

1. Introduction: challenges of party-building in Latin America Steven Levitsky, James Loxton and Brandon Van Dyck; Part I. Party-Voter Linkages and Challenges of Brand-Building: 2. Historical timing, political cleavages, and party-building in Latin America Kenneth M. Roberts; 3. Building party brands in Argentina and Brazil Noam Lupu; 4. Segmented party–voter linkages: the success of Chile's Independent Democratic Union and Uruguay's Broad Front Juan Pablo Luna; Part II. Challenges of Organization-Building: 5. The paradox of adversity: New Left party survival and collapse in Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina Brandon Van Dyck; 6. The niche party: authoritarian regime legacies and party-building in new democracies Kenneth F. Greene; 7. Patronage, subnational linkages, and party-building: the cases of Colombia and Peru Paula Muñoz and Eduardo Dargent; 8. Money for nothing? Public financing and party-building in Latin America Kathleen Bruhn; Part III. Organizational Inheritance: Alternative Platforms for Party-Building: 9. Authoritarian successor parties and the New Right in Latin America James Loxton; 10. Insurgent successor parties: scaling down to build a party after war Alisha C. Holland; 11. Obstacles to ethnic parties in Latin America Raúl L. Madrid; 12. Party-building in Brazil: the rise of the PT in perspective David Samuels and Cesar Zucco, Jr; 13. The organizational foundations of corporation-based parties William T. Barndt; Part IV. Failed Cases (and a Future One): 14. Challenges of party-building in the Bolivian East Kent Eaton; 15. Why no party-building in Peru? Steven Levitsky and Mauricio Zavaleta; 16. Past the proof moment: Cuba's future political parties Jorge I. Domínguez; 17. Conclusions: Latin American parties, past and present Jorge I. Domínguez.