Party Systems in Latin America: Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse

Edited by Scott Mainwaring
Cambridge University Press, 2/8/2018
EAN 9781107175525, ISBN10: 1107175526

Hardcover, 400 pages, 23.5 x 15.7 x 3.3 cm
Language: English

Based on contributions from leading scholars, this study generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems. It also contributes richly to major theoretical and comparative debates about the effects of party systems on democratic politics, and about why some party systems are much more stable and predictable than others. Party Systems in Latin America builds on, challenges, and updates Mainwaring and Timothy Scully's seminal Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America (1995), which re-oriented the study of democratic party systems in the developing world. It is essential reading for scholars and students of comparative party systems, democracy, and Latin American politics. It shows that a stable and predictable party system facilitates important democratic processes and outcomes, but that building and maintaining such a party system has been the exception rather than the norm in contemporary Latin America.

Part I. Introduction
Introduction Scott Mainwaring
1. Party system institutionalization, decay, and collapse Scott Mainwaring, Fernando Bizzarro Neto and Ana Petrova
2. Party system institutionalization in contemporary Latin America Scott Mainwaring
3. Party system institutionalization, predictability, and democracy Scott Mainwaring
4. Party system institutionalization in Latin America
cross-national correlates Scott Mainwaring and Fernando Bizzarro Neto
Part II. Country Cases
5. Resilience and change
the party system in redemocratized Chile J. Samuel Valenzuela, Nicolás Somma and Timothy Scully
6. The uneven institutionalization of a party system
Brazil Scott Mainwaring, Timothy Power and Fernando Bizzarro Neto
7. Authoritarian legacies and party system stability in Mexico Kenneth Greene and Mariano Sánchez Talanquer
8. Deinstitutionalization without collapse
Colombia's party system Juan Albarracín, Laura Gamboa and Scott Mainwaring
9. Argentina's declining party system
fragmentation, denationalization, factionalization, personalization and increasing fluidity in the new century Carlos Gervasoni
10. Deterioration and polarization of party politics in Venezuela Jana Morgan
11. Peru
the institutionalization of politics without parties Steven Levitsky
Part III. Comparative Analyses
12. Party brands, partisan erosion, and party breakdown Noam Lupu
13. Roots in society
attachment between citizens and party systems in Latin America Jason Seawright
14. The macroeconomic consequences of party system institutionalization Gustavo Flores-Macías
15. From the outside looking in
Latin American parties in comparative perspective Allen Hicken and Rachel Beatty Riedl.