WEEK 13: Parties and Elections in Latin America

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REQUIRED
  • Michael Coppedge, "Parties and society in Mexico and Venezuela: Why competition matters," Comparative Politics, April 1993, 25 (3):253-271.

  • Robert H. Dix, "Democratization and the institutionalization of Latin American political parties," Comparative Political Studies, January 1992, 24 (4):488-521.

  • Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully, Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), p. 1-34, 459-74.

  • Peter Siavelis and Arturo Valenzuela, "Electoral Engineering and Democratic Stability: The Legacy of Authoritarian Rule in Chile," in Arend Lijphart and Carlos H. Waisman, eds., Institutional Design in New Democracies: Eastern Europe and Latin America (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996), p. 77-100.

  • Gregory D. Schmidt, "Fujimori's 1990 Upset Victory in Peru: Electoral Rules, Contingencies, and Adaptive Strategies," Comparative Politics, April 1996, 28 (3):321-54.

  • Alan Angell, Maria D'Alva Kinzo, and Diego Urbaneja, "Latin America," in David Butler and Austin Ranney, eds., Electioneering: A Comparative Study of Continuity and Change (Oxford: Clarendon press, 1992): 43-68.

  • Inter-American Development Bank, "Latin America after a Decade of Reforms," Economic and Social Progress in Latin America: 1997 Report (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), p. 120-1, 124-48.
RECOMMENDED
  • Scott Mainwaring and Matthew S. Shugart, "Conclusion: Presidentialism and the Party System," in Scott Mainwaring and Matthew S. Shugart, eds., Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997):394-437.

  • Karen L. Remmer, "The Political Economy of Elections in Latin America," American Political Science Review, June 1993, 87 (2):393-407.

  • John D. Martz, "Party Elites and Leadership in Colombia and Venezuela," Journal of Latin American Studies, February 1992, 24 (1):87-121.

  • Robert H. Dix, "Cleavage Structures and Party Systems in Latin America," Comparative Politics, October 1989, 22 (1):23-35.

  • Lawrence LeDuc, Richard G. Niemi, and Pippa Norris, eds., Comparing Democracies: Elections and Voting in Global Perspective (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996), p. 13-48.

  • Barry Ames, "The Reverse Coattails Effect -- Local Party Organization in the 1989 Brazilian Presidential Election," American Political Science Review, March 1994, 88 (1):95-111.

  • Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully, Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), p. 37-71, 100-99, 298-22, 399-458.

  • Silvio Waisbord, "Secular Politics: The Modernization of Argentine Electioneering," in David L. Swanson and Paolo Mancini, eds., Politics, Media, and Modern Democracy (Westport, CT: Prager, 1996), p. 207-25.

  • Peter Siavelis, "Continuity and Change in the Chilean Party System: On the Transformational Effects of Electoral Reform," Comparative Political Studies, December 1997, 30 (6):651-74.

  • Cesar Cansino, "Party government in Latin America: theoretical guidelines for an empirical analysis," International Political Science Review, April 1995, 16 (2):169-182.

  • Chappell Lawson, "Why Cardenas Won," in Jorge I. Dominguez and Alejandro Poire, Toward Mexico's Democratization: Parties, Elections, Campaigns, and Voters in Mexico (forthcoming).

  • John A. Booth and Mitchell A. Seligson, eds., Elections and Democracy in Central America (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1995), p. 45-65, 84-102.

  • Scott Mainwaring, "Politicians, Parties, and Electoral Systems: Brazil in Comparative Perspective," Comparative Politics, October 1991, 24 (1):21-41.

  • John D. Martz, "Electoral campaigning and Latin American democratization: the Grancolombian experience," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Spring 1990, 32 (1):17-43.

 

Campaigning in Mexico 2000: Vincente Fox, Labastida, and Cardenas.

Luiz Carlos Prestes, leader of the Brazilian communist party for over 35 years, a victorious Hugo Chavez, and voters in one of the poorest areas of Recife, Brazil (1984) attend a political rally celebrating the first Brazilian democratic election in 25 years.

 

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