Latin America's Pendular Politics: Electoral Cycles and Alternations

Dabène, Olivier

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-03-24
  • 售價: $5,430
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$5,159
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 382
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 303126763X
  • ISBN-13: 9783031267635
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商品描述

​This book explores pendular politics in Latin America, focusing on electoral cycles with a pattern of similar results. Latin America has been neoliberal in the 1990s, leftist during the 2000s, then conservative in 2016-2018 and progressist again since 2018.

The reference to a right/left/right/left sequence over a period of thirty years undoubtedly accounts for a singular pendulum pattern yet proves to be excessively simplistic. The right/left dichotomy hides fractures and nuances that characterize each political camp.

This book seeks to explain why some elections result in alternations and others do not. Based on an innovative theoretical framework and a unique collection of case studies, the book offers a rich understanding of Latin America's contemporary political evolutions.

Voters are getting accustomed to punishing incumbents for not delivering in time of crises, resulting in frequent alternations. It might be good for democracy, not so much for governability.


作者簡介

Olivier Dabène is Professor of Political Science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and Senior Researcher at the Center for International Studies (CERI, Sciences Po), France. He is also the President of the Political Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean (www.sciencespo.fr/opalc) and Visiting Professor in many Latin American universities.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Olivier Dabène是法國巴黎政治學院(Sciences Po)政治學教授,也是國際研究中心(CERI, Sciences Po)的高級研究員。他還是拉丁美洲和加勒比地區政治觀察所(www.sciencespo.fr/opalc)的主席,並在許多拉丁美洲大學擔任客座教授。