Changing Course in Latin America: Party Systems in the Neoliberal Era (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) - Hardcover

Roberts, Kenneth M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521856876 ISBN 13: 9780521856874

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book explores the impact of economic crises and free-market reforms on party systems and political representation in contemporary Latin America. It explains why some patterns of market reform align and stabilize party systems, whereas other patterns of reform leave party systems vulnerable to widespread social protest and electoral instability. In contrast to other works on the topic, this book accounts for both the institutionalization and the breakdown of party systems, and it explains why Latin America turned to the Left politically in the aftermath of the market-reform process. Ultimately, it explains why this 'left turn' was more radical in some countries than others and why it had such varied effects on national party systems.

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About the Author

Kenneth M. Roberts is Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is the author of Deepening Democracy?: The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru (1998). Roberts is the co-editor of The Diffusion of Social Movements: Actors, Mechanisms, and Political Effects (Cambridge, 2010) and The Resurgence of the Latin American Left (2011). His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, and Studies in Comparative International Development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0521856876
• ISBN 13: 9780521856874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 356