Fates of Political Parties - Institutional Crisis, Continuity, and Change in Latin America

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Cyr is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American studies at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on political representation, identity, and democratization in Latin America. Klappentext This book shows how political parties in Latin America can survive and even revive after electoral crises. Zusammenfassung The Fates of Political Parties focuses on a number of individual Latin American countries as well as the region as a whole! identifying considerable variation regarding how parties survive and even revive after an electoral crisis. The book demonstrates that parties can be remarkably enduring institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Political parties and their resources; 3. Explaining the fates of parties; 4. The resource wealth of parties after party-system collapse: the empirical record in the Andes; 5. Survival and revival in an atomized party system: Peru after 1992; 6. Survival and revival in a regionalized party system: Venezuela after 1998; 7. The difficulties of survival and revival in a hyper-fluid party system: Bolivia after 2005; 8. Conclusion: resources and the fates of parties.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Cyr, Jennifer (University of Arizona) Cyr
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107189799
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18979-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Political science & theory, Comparative Politics, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Political science and theory, Political parties and party platforms