Diminished parties : democratic representation in contemporary Latin America /

Diminished parties : democratic representation in contemporary Latin America /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xxvi, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Political parties -- Latin America. Representative government and representation -- Latin America. Democracy -- Latin America. Democracy. Political parties. Politics and government. Representative government and representation. Latin America -- Politics and government. Latin America.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13142226

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Other authors / contributors:	Luna, Juan Pablo, editor. Piñeiro, Rafael, editor. Rosenblatt, Fernando, editor. Vommaro, Gabriel, 1976- editor.
ISBN:	9781316513187 1316513181 9781009072045
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	"More often than not, contemporary works on political parties start by referring to Schattschneider's now famous dictum concerning democracy's need for political parties. At the same time, many authors have identified parties that, in democratic contexts, fail in various ways to fulfill the function of democratic representation. Mainstream political science has defined a political party as a group of candidates who compete in elections (Downs 1957, Schlesinger 1994, among many others). This minimal definition has important analytical implications. When analyzing electoral politics, we run the risk of looking for parties - and thus, finding them - without realizing that what we have found, empirically, is only weakly related to democratic representation"--
Other form:	Online version: Diminished parties Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781009072045

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