When dictators seize power, they face a choice about how to deal with the pre-existing political parties. Some simply repress all parties, some ally themselves with one of the traditional parties and use it to help organize their rule, and others repress pre-existing parties but create a new party to support themselves. This study examines how these decisions affect the subsequent development of party systems after redemocratization. Looking at the experience of Latin America, a region that has experienced its share of dictatorships, we show that dictators who allied with traditional parties or repressed existing ones have contributed to very stable party systems. By contrast, dictators who repressed the old parties but created a new one de...
The demise of authoritarian military regimes throughout Latin America has generated significant inte...
Scholars blame the deficiencies of Latin American democracies on weak political parties and volatile...
331 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.In departing from most studie...
When dictators seize power, they face a choice about how to deal with the pre-existing political par...
When dictators seize power, they face a choice about how to deal with the pre-existing political par...
This essay calls for a more nuanced analysis of the evolution of party systems in Latin America. Fir...
This essay calls for a more nuanced analysis of the evolution of party systems in Latin America. Fir...
Although Lijphart's typology of consensus and majoritarian democracy can be regarded as the most wid...
This essay calls for a more nuanced analysis of the evolution of party systems in Latin America. Fir...
Although democratic regimes in Latin America since the early 1980s have been surprisingly durable, p...
The analysis of different political processes, including democratic ones, has been approached academ...
This article contributes to the study of party regulation in contemporary Latin America in two main ...
In Latin America, the severe flaws in post dictatorial representative democracies and the constituti...
Why do democracies survive or break down? In this paper, it returns to this classic question with an...
The paper is narrowly addressed to a single puzzle: How did it happen that countries that attempted ...
The demise of authoritarian military regimes throughout Latin America has generated significant inte...
Scholars blame the deficiencies of Latin American democracies on weak political parties and volatile...
331 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.In departing from most studie...
When dictators seize power, they face a choice about how to deal with the pre-existing political par...
When dictators seize power, they face a choice about how to deal with the pre-existing political par...
This essay calls for a more nuanced analysis of the evolution of party systems in Latin America. Fir...
This essay calls for a more nuanced analysis of the evolution of party systems in Latin America. Fir...
Although Lijphart's typology of consensus and majoritarian democracy can be regarded as the most wid...
This essay calls for a more nuanced analysis of the evolution of party systems in Latin America. Fir...
Although democratic regimes in Latin America since the early 1980s have been surprisingly durable, p...
The analysis of different political processes, including democratic ones, has been approached academ...
This article contributes to the study of party regulation in contemporary Latin America in two main ...
In Latin America, the severe flaws in post dictatorial representative democracies and the constituti...
Why do democracies survive or break down? In this paper, it returns to this classic question with an...
The paper is narrowly addressed to a single puzzle: How did it happen that countries that attempted ...
The demise of authoritarian military regimes throughout Latin America has generated significant inte...
Scholars blame the deficiencies of Latin American democracies on weak political parties and volatile...
331 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.In departing from most studie...