Politicians and politics in Latin America
By: Manuel Alcántara Sáez, editor.
Contributors: Alcántara Sáez, Manuel.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781588265487
Subjects: Representative government and representation -- Latin America; Political parties -- Latin America; Legislative bodies -- Latin America; Politicians -- Latin America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Studying parliamentary elites in Latin America, 1994-2006 / Fátima García Díez and Araceli Mateos Díaz; title: The puzzle of representation / Patricia Marenghi and Mercedes García Montero; title: The meanings of democracy and institutional trust / Araceli Mateos Díaz; title: Legislators and political agendas / Manuel Alcántara Sáez; title: The organization of political parties / Leticia M. Ruiz Rodríguez; title: The dimentions of polarization in parliaments / Cristina Rivas Pérez; title: The determinants of intra-party ideological differences / Flavia Freidenberg, Fátima García Díez and Iván Llamazares Valduvieco; title: Programatic coherence / Leticia M. Ruiz Rodríguez; title: The parliamentary left / Salvador Martí i Puig and Salvador Santiuste Cué; title: The parliamentary right / Manuel Alcántara Sáez and Iván Llamazares Valduvieco; title: Legislative careers: does quality matter? /  María del Mar Martínez Rosón; title: Politicians and politics in Latin America after twenty five years of democracy / Manuel Alcántara Sáez.