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Party-system collapse : the roots of crisis in Peru and Venezuela / Jason Seawright.
LIBRA JL3498.A1 S43 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seawright, Jason, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political parties--Peru.
- Political parties.
- Voting.
- Peru.
- Political parties--Venezuela.
- Venezuela.
- Voting--Peru.
- Voting--Venezuela.
- Elections--Peru.
- Elections.
- Elections--Venezuela.
- Peru--Politics and government--1980-.
- Politics and government.
- Venezuela--Politics and government--1974-1999.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 293 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Most party systems are relatively stable over time. Yet in the 1980s and 1990s, established party systems in Peru and Venezuela broke down, leading to the elections of outsider Alberto Fujimori and anti-party populist Hugo Chavez. Focusing on these two cases, this book explores the causes of systemic collapse.
- To date, scholars have pointed to economic crises, the rise of the informal economy, and the charisma and political brilliance of Fujimori and Chávez to explain the changes in Peru and Venezuela. This book uses economic data, surveys, and experiments to show that these explanations are incomplete. Political scientist Jason Seawright argues that party-system collapse is motivated fundamentally by voter anger at the traditional political parties, which is produced by corruption scandals and failures of representation. Integrating economic, organizational, and individual considerations, Seawright provides a new explanation and compelling new evidence to present a fuller picture of voters' decisions and actions in bringing about party-system collapse, and the rise of important outsider political leaders in South America. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Party-system collapse in South America
- Characterizing party-system changes
- Economics, societal crisis, and anxiety
- Corruption and the collapse of party identification
- Ideological underrepresentation and voter defection
- Voter affect and the demise of party systems
- Explaining parties' degree of ideological flexibility
- Collapse and the experience of politics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804782364
- 0804782369
- OCLC:
- 788272866
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