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First Published in 1994. This is Volume five of seven of a collection of essays that gathers together scholarly debates from the 1950s to the 1990s on Mexico, Central and South America. This text looks at topics such as government parties in Latin America, the Mexican elections of 1958, political campaigning, the scope of the Chilean Party systems, the case of Peronism and electoral change amongst others.
List of contents
Introduction, Responsible Parties in Latin America, The Mexican Elections of 1958: Mfirmation of Authoritarianism?, Bases of Support for Mexico's Dominant Party, Democratic Political Campaigning in Latin America: A Typological Approach to Cross-Cultural Research, Political Primitivism, Differential Socialization, and Lower-Class Leftist Radicalism, The Scope of the Chilean Party System, Social Structure, Social Context, and Partisan Mobilization: Urban Workers in Chile, The Socio-Economic Determinants of Popular-Authoritarian Electoral Behavior: The Case of Peronism, Criticism, Cynicism, and Political Evaluation: A Venezuelan Example, Political Participation in Latin America: Levels, Structure, Context, Concentration and Rationality, Electoral Change in the One-Party Dominant Mexican Polity, 1958-73: Evidence from Mexico City, The Popular Parties: Brazil and Argentina in a Latin American Perspective, Incumbency and Electoral Turnover in Latin America, Electoral Struggles in a Neighborhood on the Periphery of Sao Paulo, Political Parties and Democratization in Brazil and the Southern Cone, Attitudes Towards Democracy in Argentina During the Transition Period, Formal Versus Substantive Democracy: Poor People's Politics in Mexico City, The Brazilian Voter in Democratic Transition, 1974-1982, Whither the PRJ? Explaining Voter Defection in the 1988, Mexican Presidential Elections, Acknowledgments
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Edited by Jorge I. Dominguez Harvard University
