Christian Democracy in Latin America : Electoral Competition and Regime Conflicts / ed. by Scott Mainwaring, Timothy R. Scully.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crisp, Brian F., Contributor.

Hawkins, Kirk A., Contributor.

Huneeus, Carlos, Contributor.

Levine, Daniel H., Contributor.

Loaeza, Soledad, Contributor.

Magaloni, Beatriz, Contributor.

Mainwaring, Scott, Contributor.

Mainwaring, Scott, Editor.

Molina, José E., Contributor.

Schmidt, Gregory D., Contributor.

Scully, Timothy R., Contributor.

Scully, Timothy R., Editor.

Seri, Guillennina, Contributor.

Sigmund, Paul E., Contributor.

Walker, Ignacio, Contributor.

Williams, Philip J., Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 p.) : 38 tables, 11 figures, 4 maps

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

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:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

TABLES, FIGURES, MAPS, AND APPENDICES

CONTRIBUTORS

Part I OVERVIEWS

1 Party Objectives in Authoritarian Regimes with Elections or Fragile Democracies: A Dual Game

2 The Diversity of Christian Democracy in Latin America

3 The Transformation of Christian Democratic Ideology: Transcending Left and Right, or Whatever Happened to the Third Way?

4 Sowing Ideas: Explaining the Origins of Christian Democratic Parties in Latin America

Part II TWO MAJOR CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTIES

5 A Highly Institutionalized Political Party: Christian Democracy in Chile

6 The Future of Chilean Christian Democracy

7 The National Action Party (PAN): From the Fringes of the Political System to the Heart of Change

8 Catching All Souls: The Partido Acción Nacional and the Politics of Religion in Mexico

Part III CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTIES IN DECLINE

9 The Rise and Decline of COPEI in Venezuela

10 The Limits of Reformism: The Rise and Fall of Christian Democracy in El Salvador and Guatemala

11 The Great Minority: Christian Democracy in Peru

12 The Transformation and Decline of Christian Democracy in Latin America

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2036-0

OCLC:

1294426298