'Break-In Parties' and Changing Patterns of Democracy in Latin America

Although Lijphart's typology of consensus and majoritarian democracy can be regarded as the most widely used tool to classify democratic regimes, it has been rarely applied to Latin America so far. We try to fill this gap by adapting Lijphart's typological framework to the Latin American c...

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Autores: Kestler, Thomas, Lucca, Juan Bautista, Krause, Silvana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
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Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
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Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Break-in Parties
Latin America
Democracy
Informal Institutions
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title 'Break-In Parties' and Changing Patterns of Democracy in Latin America
spellingShingle 'Break-In Parties' and Changing Patterns of Democracy in Latin America
Kestler, Thomas
Break-in Parties
Latin America
Democracy
Informal Institutions
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.6
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
title_short 'Break-In Parties' and Changing Patterns of Democracy in Latin America
title_full 'Break-In Parties' and Changing Patterns of Democracy in Latin America
title_fullStr 'Break-In Parties' and Changing Patterns of Democracy in Latin America
title_full_unstemmed 'Break-In Parties' and Changing Patterns of Democracy in Latin America
title_sort 'Break-In Parties' and Changing Patterns of Democracy in Latin America
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Kestler, Thomas
Lucca, Juan Bautista
Krause, Silvana
author Kestler, Thomas
author_facet Kestler, Thomas
Lucca, Juan Bautista
Krause, Silvana
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author2 Lucca, Juan Bautista
Krause, Silvana
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Break-in Parties
Latin America
Democracy
Informal Institutions
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.6
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
topic Break-in Parties
Latin America
Democracy
Informal Institutions
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.6
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
description Although Lijphart's typology of consensus and majoritarian democracy can be regarded as the most widely used tool to classify democratic regimes, it has been rarely applied to Latin America so far. We try to fill this gap by adapting Lijphart's typological framework to the Latin American context in the following way. In contrast to previous studies, we treat the type of democracy as an independent variable and include informal factors such as clientelism or informal employment in our assessment of democratic patterns. On this basis, we aim to answer the following questions. First, how did the patterns of democracy evolve in Latin America over the two decades between 1990 and 2010 and what kind of differences can be observed in the region? Second, what are the institutional determinants of the observed changes? We focus on the emergence of new parties because of their strong impact on the first dimension of Lijphart's typology. From our observations we draw the following tentative conclusions: If strong new parties established themselves in the party system but failed to gain the presidency, they pushed the system towards consensualism. Conversely, new parties that gained the presidency produced more majoritarian traits.
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