Party-system collapse
Subtitle: the roots of crisis in Peru and Venezuela
By: Jason Seawright
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780804782364
Subjects: Politics and government; Voting; Political parties; Elections
Description: Most party systems are relatively stable over time. Yet in the 1980s and 1990s, established party systems in Peru and Venezuela broke down, leading to the elections of outsider Alberto Fujimori and anti-party populist Hugo Chavez. Focusing on these two cases, this book explores the causes of systemic collapse. The author argues that party-system collapse is motivated fundamentally by voter anger at the traditional political parties, which is produced by corruption scandals and failures of representation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Party-system collapse in South America; title: Characterizing party-system changes; title: Economics, societal crisis, and anxiety; title: Corruption and the collapse of party identification; title: Ideological underrepresentation and voter defection; title: Voter affect and the demise of party systems; title: Explaining parties' degree of ideological flexibility; title: Collapse and the experience of politics.