Latin American Party Systems Paperback (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) - Softcover

Kitschelt, Herbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521132665 ISBN 13: 9780521132664

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Provides a novel theoretical understanding of differences in the degree to which modern political party systems were programmatically structured. Based on a diverse array of indicators and extensive survey data, the book argues that learning and adaptation are the main mechanisms by which politicians build programmatic parties.

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'The book speaks to a variety of literatures and is a worthwhile read ...' Acta Politica

Biografía del autor:

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.

Kirk Hawkins is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He is the author of The Discourse of Populism: Venezuela's Chavismo in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press). He has published work on political parties and populist movements and his current research focuses on the analysis of political culture.

Juan Pablo Luna is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His dissertation on party voter linkages in Chile and Uruguay won the 2008 Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award of APSA's Comparative Democratization Section.

Guillermo Rosas is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Curbing Bailouts: Banking Crises and Electoral Accountability in Comparative Perspective (University of Michigan Press). His research interests center on political economy and legislative politics.

Elizabeth Zechmeister is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Assistant Director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project at Vanderbilt University. She is the author, with Jennifer Merolla, of Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public (University of Chicago Press). Her research interests are in comparative political behavior with a regional focus on Latin America.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521132665
• ISBN 13: 9780521132664
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416