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ISBN: | 9780271072289 0271072288 9780271050621 0271050624
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-341) and index. English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 5, 2017).
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Summary: | 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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Other form: | Print version: Morgan, Jana, 1977- Bankrupt representation and party system collapse. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2011 9780271050621
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