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Title: | Party System Competition and *Representation: Democratization and Redemocratization in Chile From a Comparative Perspective |
Author(s): | Bosworth, Jeffrey Alan |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Gerardo L. Munck |
Department / Program: | Political Science |
Discipline: | Political Science |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | History, Latin American |
Abstract: | In departing from most studies of parties and party systems, this work proposes a novel conception of party systems that focuses on patterns of competition and representation. In seeking to explain the origins and transformations of these particular patterns in Latin America, I take a long-term historical view that highlights the importance of four variables in the initial period of democratization: (1) the sequence of party-state formation; (2) the relative balance of executive-legislative relations; (3) the structure of social cleavages; and (4) the expansion of suffrage. Beyond assessing and explaining the origins of party system competition and representation in Latin America, I demonstrate how the nature of the bureaucratic-authoritarian regimes and the dynamics of the transition have modified these party system patterns since redemocratization in the 1980s. While the focus of this study is the case of Chile, I also compare and contrast the varied experiences of Brazil and Argentina. |
Issue Date: | 2000 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 331 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82607 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI9955589 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 2000 |
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