Candidate Matters: A Study of Ethnic Parties, Campaigns, and Elections in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780190068844 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str.

Karleen Jones West

Recenzje

Karleen Jones West provides an incisive analysis of the relation of campaign strategies and party behavior. With in-depth field work and statistical analysis, she goes far beyond description to explain how and why a party may be able to emphasize programmatic goals while still using personalist strategies to win votes. In so doing, West distinguishes between candidate and district factors, which by itself is an important theoretical contribution.

O autorze

Karleen Jones West is an Associate Professor of Political Science at SUNY Geneseo, specializing in comparative institutions, public opinion, and the politics of sustainability. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Latin American Public Opinion Project, and has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Research Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, Global Environmental Studies, among others. She is co-author of Who Speaks for Nature?, which inspired a documentary of the same name.