Christian democracy in Latin America : electoral competition and regime conflicts / edited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mainwaring, Scott, 1954-

Scully, Timothy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian democratic parties--Latin America.

Christian democratic parties.

Christian democracy--Latin America.

Christian democracy.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xviii, 404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Christian Democracy swept across parts of Latin America, gaining influence in Venezuela in the 1940s, Chile in the 1950s, El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1960s, and Costa Rica and Mexico in the 1980s. This book offers an overview of Christian Democracy in the region- underscoring its remarkable diversity- and examines the Christian Democratic organizations of Chile and Mexico, which are still major parties today. The concluding section analyzes the demise of formerly significant Christian Democratic parties in El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, and Venezuela. "Christian Democracy in Latin America" provides the definitive stufy of the nature, rise, and decline of Christian Democracy in Latin America. The book enriches the broader theoretical literature on political parties by highlighting the distinctive strategic dilemmas parties face, and the distinctive objectives they pursue, in contexts of fragile democracy or of authoritarian regimes.

Contents:

1. Party Objectives in Authoritarian Regimes with Elections or Fragile Democracies: A Dual Game / Scott Mainwaring 3

2. The Diversity of Christian Democracy in Latin America / Scott Mainwaring, Timothy R. Scully 30

3. The Transformation of Christian Democratic Ideology: Transcending Left and Right, or Whatever Happened to the Third Way? / Paul E. Sigmund 64

4. Sowing Ideas: Explaining the Origins of Christian Democratic Parties in Latin America / Kirk A. Hawkins 78

Part II. Two Major Contemporary Christian Democratic Parties

5. A Highly Institutionalized Political Party: Christian Democracy in Chile / Carlos Huneeus 121

6. The Future of Chilean Christian Democracy / Ignacio Walker 162

7. The National Action Party (PAN): From the Fringes of the Political System to the Heart of Change / Soledad Loaeza 196

8. Catching All Souls: The Partido Accion Nacional and the Politics of Religion in Mexico / Beatriz Magaloni, Alejandro Moreno 247

Part III. Christian Democratic Parties in Decline

9. The Rise and Decline of COPEI in Venezuela / Brian F. Crisp, Daniel H. Levine, Jose E. Molina 275

10. The Limits of Reformism: The Rise and Fall of Christian Democracy in El Salvador and Guatemala / Philip J. Williams, Guillermina Seri 301

11. The Great Minority: Christian Democracy in Peru / Gregory D. Schmidt 330

12. The Transformation and Decline of Christian Democracy in Latin America / Scott Mainwaring 364.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0804745978

0804745986

OCLC:

50684206