Mandates and Democracy - Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America

Susan Stokes explores why Latin American politicians seeking reelection would impose unpopular policies.

List of contents

1. Elections, mandates, and representation; 2. Electoral politics and economic policy in Latin America; 3. Explaining policy switches; 4. Are parties what's wrong with democracy in Latin America?: neoliberalism without mandates: citizens respond; 5. Mandates and democratic theory; 6. Summary, predictions, unsettled questions; References.

Summary

If politicians want to be reelected or see their party reelected at the end of their term, why would they impose unpopular policies? Susan Stokes develops a model of policy switches and tests it with statistical and qualitative data from Latin American elections over the last two decades.

Product details

• Authors: Susan C. Stokes, Susan Carol Stokes
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521801188
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80118-8
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 543 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education