Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781316601402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 572 str.

Steven Levitsky; James Loxton; Brandon Van Dyck

Opis

This book presents a new and conflict-centered theory of successful party-building, drawing on diverse cases from across Latin America.

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.