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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785942603321

Autore

Seawright Jason

Titolo

Party-system collapse [[electronic resource] ] : the roots of crisis in Peru and Venezuela / / Jason Seawright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8047-8392-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Disciplina

324.285

Soggetti

Elections - Peru

Elections - Venezuela

Political parties - Peru

Political parties - Venezuela

Voting - Peru

Voting - Venezuela

Peru Politics and government 1980-

Venezuela Politics and government 1974-1999

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Online Appendix; Chapter 1: Party-System Collapse in South America; Chapter 2: Characterizing Party-System Changes; Chapter 3: Economics, Societal Crisis, and Anxiety; Chapter 4: Corruption and the Collapse of Party Identification; Chapter 5: Ideological Underrepresentation and Voter Defection; Chapter 6: Voter Affect and the Demise of Party Systems; Chapter 7: Explaining Parties' Degree of Ideological Flexibility; Chapter 8: Collapse and the Experience of Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Most party systems are relatively stable over time. Yet in the 1980's and 1990's, established party systems in Peru and Venezuela broke down, leading to the elections of outsider Alberto Fujimori and anti-party populist Hugo Chavez. Focusing on these two cases, this book explores the causes of systemic collapse. To date, scholars have pointed to economic crises, the rise of the informal economy, and the charisma and political brilliance of Fujimori and Chavez to explain the



changes in Peru and Venezuela. This book uses economic data, surveys, and experiments to show that these...