Party Systems in Latin America

Part I. Introduction: Introduction Scott Mainwaring; 1. Party system institutionalization, decay, and collapse Scott Mainwaring, Fernando Bizzarro Neto and Ana Petrova; 2. Party system institutionalization in contemporary Latin America Scott Mainwaring; 3. Party system institutionalization, predictability, and democracy Scott Mainwaring; 4. Party system institutionalization in Latin America: cross-national correlates Scott Mainwaring and Fernando Bizzarro Neto; Part II. Country Cases: 5. Resilience and change: the party system in redemocratized Chile J. Samuel Valenzuela, Nicolás Somma and Timothy Scully; 6. The uneven institutionalization of a party system: Brazil Scott Mainwaring, Timothy Power and Fernando Bizzarro Neto; 7. Authoritarian legacies and party system stability in Mexico Kenneth Greene and Mariano Sánchez Talanquer; 8. Deinstitutionalization without collapse: Colombia's party system Juan Albarracín, Laura Gamboa and Scott Mainwaring; 9. Argentina's declining party system: fragmentation, denationalization, factionalization, personalization and increasing fluidity in the new century Carlos Gervasoni; 10. Deterioration and polarization of party politics in Venezuela Jana Morgan; 11. Peru: the institutionalization of politics without parties Steven Levitsky; Part III. Comparative Analyses: 12. Party brands, partisan erosion, and party breakdown Noam Lupu; 13. Roots in society: attachment between citizens and party systems in Latin America Jason Seawright; 14. The macroeconomic consequences of party system institutionalization Gustavo Flores-Macías; 15. From the outside looking in: Latin American parties in comparative perspective Allen Hicken and Rachel Beatty Riedl.