Name: Diminished Parties: Democratic Representation in Contemporary Latin America
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Author: Juan Pablo Luna
ISBN: 9781316513187

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Diminished Parties: Democratic Representation in Contemporary Latin America

Type

Physical Book

Illustrated by

Juan Pablo Luna

Rafael Piñeiro Rodríguez

Fernando Rosenblatt

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Juan Pablo Luna

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.71 kg.

ISBN13

9781316513187

Synopsis "Diminished Parties: Democratic Representation in Contemporary Latin America "

Many contemporary party organizations are failing to fulfill their representational role in contemporary democracies. While political scientists tend to rely on a minimalist definition of political parties (groups of candidates that compete in elections), this volume argues that this misses how parties can differ not only in degree but also in kind. With a new typology of political parties, the authors provide a new analytical tool to address the role of political parties in democratic functioning and political representation. The empirical chapters apply the conceptual framework to analyze seventeen parties across Latin America. The authors are established scholars expert in comparative politics and in the cases included in the volume. The book sets an agenda for future research on parties and representation, and it will appeal to those concerned with the challenges of consolidating stable and programmatic party systems in developing democracies.

Juan Pablo Luna

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JUAN PABLO LUNA is PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and full professor at the School of Government of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He serves as an associate researcher at the Millennium Institute Fundamentals of Data and at the Millennium Institute viodemos. He is currently the lead researcher of the fondecyt Project #1230476. Starting in 2025, he will direct the Diamond-Brown Chair in Democratic Studies at McGill University, Canada. His most recent research addresses the relationship between inequality, state capacity, organized crime, and democratic citizenship in Latin America, topics on which he has published about fifty articles in international scientific journals. In Chile, he has published Instead of Optimism. Representation Crisis in current Chile (Catalonia, 2017) and The Unconscious Rabble (Catalonia, 2021). He is also the author of Segmented representation. Political representation in unequal societies (Oxford University Press, 2014), based on his doctoral thesis, which won the Juan Linz Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis (2008), awarded by the American Political Science Association. More recently, he has published: Criminal politics and botched development in Latin America, co-authored with Andreas Feldmann (Cambridge University Press 2023), Latin American politics and society. A comparative and historical analysis (co-authored with Gerardo Munck (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Diminished parties (co-edited with Fernando Rosenblatt, Rafael Piñeiro, and Gabriel Vommaro (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

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