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Bankrupt Representation and Party System Collapse - Softcover

Morgan, Jana

 
9780271050638: Bankrupt Representation and Party System Collapse
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0271050632 ISBN 13: 9780271050638
Publisher: Penn State University Press, 2012

Synopsis

In recent decades, Bolivia, Colombia, Italy, and Venezuela have all faced the turmoil and democratic crisis of party system collapse. In Bankrupt Representation and Party System Collapse, Jana Morgan analyzes the causes of such collapse. She does so through a detailed examination of Venezuela’s traumatic party system decay as well as comparative analysis of seven other countries. Collapse occurs when the party system as a whole is unable to provide adequate linkage between society and the state, failing to furnish programmatic representation, integration of major societal interests, or clientelist exchanges. Linkage decays when party systems face challenges that jeopardize their core strategies at the same time that they are constrained in their ability to adapt and to confront these threats. If this decay is unchecked and linkage of all sorts fails, then the bankrupt party system collapses.

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About the Author

Jana Morgan is Associate Professor of Political Science and a Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Social Justice at the University of Tennessee.

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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0271050632
ISBN 13 
9780271050638
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
382