The fates of political parties : institutional crisis, continuity, and change in Latin America / Jennifer Cyr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cyr, Jennifer, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political parties--Latin America.

Political parties.

Latin America--Politics and government.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Political parties in the developing world often face serious electoral crises; from one election to the next, parties can be decisively voted out of national office. What happens to a party that experiences this kind of voter rejection? The literature suggests it will disappear, leaving the party system vulnerable to the inexperience of new political actors. The Fates of Political Parties offers a more nuanced perspective: focusing on a number of individual Latin American countries as well as the region as a whole, it identifies considerable variation regarding how parties survive and even revive after an electoral crisis. The book revitalizes the study of parties as complex entities that rely on a potentially diverse set of resources to remain active in politics. It demonstrates that parties can be remarkably enduring institutions; surviving and reviving parties represent instances of institutional stability. Where they endure, those parties can sustain competition and strengthen the democratic regime.

Contents:

Introduction

Political parties and their resources

Explaining the fates of parties

The resource wealth of parties after party-system collapse: the empirical record in the Andes

Survival and revival in a regionalized party system: Venezuela after 1998

The difficulties of survival and revival in a hyper-fluid party system: Bolivia after 2005

Conclusion: resources and the fates of parties.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017).

ISBN:

9781107189799 (hardback)

1-108-10042-2

1-108-10282-4

1-108-10322-7

1-108-10362-6

1-108-10523-8

1-316-99572-0