Latin American Party Systems (Paperback)

Introduction: party competition in Latin America; 1. Patterns of programmatic party competition in Latin America; Part I. Describing Programmatic Structuration: 2. Issues, ideologies, and partisan divides: imprints of programmatic structure in Latin American legislatures; 3. Left-right semantics as a facilitator of programmatic structuring; 4. Political representation in Latin America; 5. Ideological cohesion of political parties in Latin America; Part II. Causes and Correlates of Programmatic Party System Structuration: Explaining Cross-National Diversity: 6. Long-term influences on the structuring of Latin American Party systems; 7. Democratic politics and political economy since the 1980s: transforming the programmatic structure of Latin American party systems?; 8. Programmatic structuration around religion and political regime; 9. Programmatic structuration and democratic performance; Conclusion.