Name: Segmented Representation: Political Party Strategies in Unequal Democracies (Oxford Studies in Democratization)
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Author: Juan Pablo Luna
ISBN: 9780199642649

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Segmented Representation: Political Party Strategies in Unequal Democracies (Oxford Studies in Democratization)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Juan Pablo Luna

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780199642649

Edition No.

Synopsis "Segmented Representation: Political Party Strategies in Unequal Democracies (Oxford Studies in Democratization) "

Millions of enfranchised people live in abject poverty in democracies around the world. Yet in representative democracies, the success or failure of political parties rests on their ability to effectively engage voters. In today's highly unequal and individualized societies, the diversity of voters along socioeconomic, religious, and other lines presents an obstacle for parties vying for electoral success. How, then, can widespread, crushing poverty still exist in stable democracies, if every citizen has a vote? Two wildly different parties, Chile's right-wing UDI and Uruguay's left-wing Frente Amplio, have achieved stunning victories in this supposedly inhospitable political landscape. They have done so by simultaneously segmenting and strategically harmonizing their linkages to distinct cross-sections of voters in each society. While that electoral strategy makes for a winning hand for parties in fragmented modern societies, it perpetuates the gross inequalities that characterize the social, political, and economic landscapes of the developing democratic world. This book develops a new analytical and conceptual framework to unveil and explain segmented representation, revealing new implications for democratic societies. Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

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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