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Autore: | Seawright Jason |
Titolo: | Party-system collapse [[electronic resource] ] : the roots of crisis in Peru and Venezuela / / Jason Seawright |
Pubblicazione: | Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
Disciplina: | 324.285 |
Soggetto topico: | Elections - Peru |
Elections - Venezuela | |
Political parties - Peru | |
Political parties - Venezuela | |
Voting - Peru | |
Voting - Venezuela | |
Soggetto geografico: | Peru Politics and government 1980- |
Venezuela Politics and government 1974-1999 | |
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... |
Titolo autorizzato: | Party-system collapse |
ISBN: | 0-8047-8392-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910785942603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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