Political Representation in Latin America: Existing Findings and a Research Agenda
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political representation, democracy, links between candidates and voters, political parties, Latin AmericaAbstract
This review essay concludes that the neo-institutionalist literature shows that thenecessary preconditions for programmatic representation do not exist in Latin America.The inability to explain non-programmatic links between voters and political parties limitsneo-institutional research. Existing work suffers because it narrows the study of programmaticrepresentation to party institutionalization, because it focuses on formal institutions, and because it relies too heavily upon the use of aggregate data in cross-national studies to study the party systems of the region. This essay suggests that future studies of parties usemulti-level comparisons to describe the necessarily heterogeneous linkages that parties craftwith different types of voters. It also recommends using political economy to study the informalinstitutions and historical-institutional trajectories of Latin American political parties.
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